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olive-branched

olive-branched is the simple past and past participle of olive-branch.

Meaning of olive-branch

Verb

olive-branch (third-person singular simple present olive-branches, present participle olive-branching, simple past and past participle olive-branched)

  1. To extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.
    • As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!1914, Thomas Allibone Janvier, At the Casa Napoleon, page 140

Adjective

olive-branched (comparative more olive-branched, superlative most olive-branched)

  1. Adorned with one or more olive branches.
    • Indeed, in the 1960's, Blacks and other minorities extended, by and large, the olive-branched claw of the Eagle, our national symbol.1971, The Catholic Charities Review - Volumes 55-56, page 8
    • Members of San Francisco's considerable French colony were at tables flanked by the French tricolor and the Stars and Stripes, with the olive-branched symbol of the UN in the center.1978, Laddie Marshack, A crowd of lovers, page 114

Forms of olive-branched

comparativemore olive-branched
superlativemost olive-branched

Questions about olive-branched

What does olive-branched mean?
Olive-branched means adorned with one or more olive branches.
What is olive-branched the simple past and past participle of?
Olive-branched is the simple past and past participle of olive-branch.
What part of speech is olive-branched?
Olive-branched is an adjective.

Words near olive-branched in the dictionary

  1. olive-backed orioles
  2. olive-backed pipit
  3. olive-backed sunbird
  4. olive-backed thrush
  5. olive-branch
  6. olive-branched
  7. olive-branches
  8. olive-branching
  9. olive-oily
  10. olive-pomace oil
  11. olive-sided flycatcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: olive-branched (page history and authors); olive-branch (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.

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