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peacemaker

/ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/

peacemaker noun: a person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.

Noun (1)

peacemaker (plural peacemakers)

  1. A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
    • Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew v:[9]
    • Loke therfore, O mercifull God, not vpon the sinnes which we continually commit: but vpon our mediatour & peacemaker Jesus Christ; that by his intercession thy wrath may be pacified, and we againe by thy fatherly countenance relieved and comforted.1563, Church of England, A Fourme to be Vsed in Common Prayer Twyse a Weke, and Also an Order of Publique Fast, to be Vsed Euery Wednesday in the Weeke, Duryng this Tyme of Mortalitie, and Other...
    Synonyms:
    pacificator
  2. (non-native speakers' English) Catachresis for pacemaker.
    • Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]2010, M. Valderrama, V. Navarro, M. Le Van Quyen, “Heart rate variability as measurement of heart-brain interactions”, in Epilepsies
    • The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]2014, S. Samad, SA. Khan, A. Haq, A. Riaz, “Classification of arrhythmia”, in International Journal of Electrical Energy

Noun (2) capitalized: Peacemaker

Peacemaker (plural Peacemakers)

  1. An early type of American revolver, especially the Colt 1873 Single Action Army model.
    • Peacemaker on his hip
  2. The B-36 bomber.

peacemaker meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

peacemaker in Tamil

சந்து செய்விப்போர்

peacemaker in Malayalam

mediator, arbitrator, arbiter
സമാധാനപ്രണേതാവ്, സമാധാനപ്പെടുത്തുന്നവൻ, സാന്ത്വനികൻ, സമാധാനശ്രമം നടത്തുന്നവൻ, മദ്ധ്യസ്ഥൻ, നടുവൻ

peacemaker in Kannada

ರಾಜಿಮಾಡಿಸುವವ, ಶಾಂತಿಸ್ಥಾಪಕ, ಸಂಧಿಗಾರ, ಶಾಂತಿಕರ್ತ

peacemaker in Gujarati

peacemaker
સલાહકાર salāhkār
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peacemaker in Arabic
صانِعُ ٱلسَّلام ṣāniʕu s-salām, مُصْلِح muṣliḥ
peacemaker in Vietnamese
người hoà giải

Examples of peacemaker in a sentence

  • These two things premis’d, I come now to draw the character of the persons here stiled peacemakers.1742, Henry Grove, Thomas Amory, Sermons, Being Two Additional Volumes of the Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Henry Grove, of...
  • Carter has celebrated experience as a peacemaker: he mediated the 1978 peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.1989 September 3, R. W. Apple, Jr., “Carter the Peacemaker Now Turns to Ethiopia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25...
  • “That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said.2025 June 18, Zachary B. Wolf, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump promised a peacemaker presidency. What happened?”, in CNN, archived from the...

Synonyms of peacemaker

Antonyms

Forms of peacemaker

pluralpeacemakers
pluralPeacemakers

Plural of peacemaker: peacemakers

Origin of peacemaker

Compound of peace + maker. First attested in the Tyndale Bible from 1526, as a translation of Koine Greek εἰρηνοποιοί (eirēnopoioí, “peacemaker”), a hapax legomenon found in the New Testament. (The Wycliffe Bible from 1395 instead uses "pesible men", to translate Latin pacifici from the Vulgate)

Proprialisation of peacemaker.

Questions about peacemaker

What does peacemaker mean?
Peacemaker means a person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
What is peacemaker in Tamil?
Peacemaker in Tamil is சந்து செய்விப்போர். See Peacemaker meaning in Tamil.
How do you use peacemaker in a sentence?
These two things premis’d, I come now to draw the character of the persons here stiled peacemakers.
What part of speech is peacemaker?
Peacemaker is a noun.
How do you pronounce peacemaker?
Peacemaker is pronounced /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of peacemaker?
The plural of peacemaker is peacemakers.

Words near peacemaker in the dictionary

  1. peacelessly
  2. peacelessness
  3. peacelike
  4. peacelover
  5. peacelovers
  6. peacemaker
  7. peacemakers
  8. peacemaking
  9. peacemakings
  10. peacemonger
  11. peacemongering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peacemaker (page history and authors); Peacemaker (page history and authors); peacemaker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peacemaker (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); peacemaker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સલાહકાર (Gujarati) (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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