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peace-time

peace-time is the alternative form of peacetime.

Meaning of peacetime

Noun

peacetime (usually uncountable, plural peacetimes)

  1. (usually) The period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
    • When the country was blockaded during the second world war and the nation’s farmers were told to convert scrub and pasture to sown fields, arable land doubled. In peacetime, the patriotic drive for self-sufficiency continued2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian

Forms of peace-time

pluralpeace-times

Questions about peace-time

What is peace-time the alternative form of?
Peace-time is the alternative form of peacetime.

Words near peace-time in the dictionary

  1. peace work
  2. peace worker
  3. peace workers
  4. peace-nik
  5. peace-niks
  6. peace-time
  7. peace-times
  8. peaceability
  9. peaceable
  10. peaceableness
  11. peaceably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peace-time (page history and authors); peacetime (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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