Paxnoun [ U ]
uk/pæks/us/pæks/a period of peace that has been forced on a large area, such as an empire or even the whole world, by the most powerful nation of that time:
Pax Romana (= the peace forced by Rome on its empire)
The vice president promised that there would be no attempt to impose a Pax Americana on the region.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Peace
- anti-war
- concord
- dove
- dovish
- hold out/offer an olive branch idiom
- non-aggression
- non-violence
- olive
- pacific
- pacifism
- pacifist
- peace
- peace offering
- peace-loving
- peaceable
- peaceful
- peacekeeping
- peacetime
- phoney war
- truce
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