Word.ws English Dictionary

Eirene

/aɪˈɹiːni/

Eirene proper noun: the goddess and personification of peace; one of the Horae, she is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Dike (Justice) and Eunomia (Order of Law); her Roman counterpart is Pax.

Proper noun

Eirene

  1. (Greek) The goddess and personification of peace; one of the Horae, she is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Dike (Justice) and Eunomia (Order of Law); her Roman counterpart is Pax.
  2. 14 Irene, a main belt asteroid.
  3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Antonyms of Eirene

  • Polemos

Origin of Eirene

From Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, literally “Peace”).

Questions about Eirene

What does Eirene mean?
Eirene means the goddess and personification of peace; one of the Horae, she is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Dike (Justice) and Eunomia (Order of Law); her Roman counterpart is Pax.
What part of speech is Eirene?
Eirene is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Eirene?
Eirene is pronounced /aɪˈɹiːni/.

Words near Eirene in the dictionary

  1. Eireans
  2. Eireboo
  3. Eireboos
  4. eirenarch
  5. eirenarchs
  6. Eirene
  7. eirenic
  8. eirenica
  9. eirenical
  10. eirenically
  11. eirenicism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Eirene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Eirene.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eirene. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.