peacetime
/ˈpiːstaɪm/
peacetime noun: the period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
Noun
peacetime (usually uncountable, plural peacetimes)
- 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
peacetime meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Gujarati
peacetime in Hindi
- शांतिकाल
peacetime in Bengali
- শান্তিকালীন, শান্তিকাল
peacetime in Kannada
- ಶಾಂತಿಕಾಲ
peacetime in Gujarati
- શાંતિકાલ
More languagesFewer languages
- peacetime in Odia
- ଶାନ୍ତିକାଲ
- peacetime in Arabic
- وَقْت السَّلَامِ waqt as-salāmi, وَقْت السِّلْمِ waqt as-silmi, زَمَن السَّلَامِ zaman as-salāmi, زَمَن السِّلْمِ zaman as-silmi
- peacetime in Malay
- masa aman
- peacetime in Persian
- زمان صلح zamân-e solh
- peacetime in Vietnamese
- thời bình
Examples of peacetime in a sentence
- Captain Jenkins reacted as commanders had been trained in peacetime: "Counter-illuminate!" he shouted.
- Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.
- FDR and the New Dealers unleashed the power of the central state in ways rarely done during peacetime.
Antonyms of peacetime
Forms of peacetime
| plural | peacetimes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | peace time |
| alternative form | peace-time |
Origin of peacetime
From peace + time.
Questions about peacetime
- What does peacetime mean?
- Peacetime means the period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
- What is peacetime in Hindi?
- Peacetime in Hindi is शांतिकाल. See Peacetime meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is peacetime?
- Peacetime is a noun.
- How do you pronounce peacetime?
- Peacetime is pronounced /ˈpiːstaɪm/.
- What is the plural of peacetime?
- The plural of peacetime is peacetimes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: peacetime (page history and authors); peacetime (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacetime (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacetime (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacetime (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); peacetime (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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