truce
UK/tɹuːs//tɹus/
truce noun: a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
Noun
truce (plural truces)
- A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- An uneasy truce
- [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.1732 September 30 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous...
- An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
- He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.
- They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
Verb
truce (third-person singular simple present truces, present participle trucing, simple past and past participle truced)
- To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
- Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.1869, Thomas Cobbe, History of the Norman Kings of England, page 330
truce meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
truce in Hindi
- period of time in which no fighting takes place
- युद्धविराम yuddhavirām, संधि sandhi, समझौता samjhautā
- agreement between opposed parties
- संधि sandhi, समझौता samjhautā
truce in Tamil
- period of time in which no fighting takes place
- சமாதானம் camātāṉam
truce in Urdu
- التوا جنگ, مہلت, صلح
truce in Bengali
- যুদ্ধবিরতি, অস্থায়ী শান্তি
More languagesFewer languages
- truce in Malayalam
- തത്കാലികയുദ്ധ വിരാമക്കരാർ, തത്കാല ശമനം
- truce in Kannada
- ಕಾಳಗನಿಲುಮೆ, ಕಾಳಗಸಯ್ಪು, ಕದನ ವಿರಾಮ, ಯುದ್ಧ ವಿರಾಮ
- truce in Arabic
- هُدْنَة hudna
- truce in Malay
- damai sementara, limut
- truce in Indonesian
- gencatan senjata
- truce in Vietnamese
- đình chiến, hưu chiến
Examples of truce in a sentence
- All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
- The general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
- All hopes for a truce are gone.
Synonyms of truce
Forms of truce
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | truces |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | truces |
| present participle | trucing |
| past participle | truced |
| past | truced |
Origin of truce
From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Words formed from truce
Words that rhyme with truce
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- cruse
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about truce
- What does truce mean?
- Truce means a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- What is truce in Hindi?
- Truce in Hindi is युद्धविराम (yuddhavirām), संधि (sandhi), समझौता (samjhautā). See Truce meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is truce?
- Truce can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce truce?
- Truce is pronounced /tɹuːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of truce?
- The plural of truce is truces.
Words near truce in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: truce (page history and authors); truce (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); truce (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); truce (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); truce (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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