peace
peace n
ME pais < OFr pais.
- Tranquility; freedom from pain; absence of suffering; serenity of mind.
- Silence; stillness; quiet.
- Bliss; ecstasy; rapture; supreme joy.
- Absence of war.
- Freedom from regret; absence of remorse.
- Calm weather; quiet period after a storm.
- [Fig.] eternal rest.
- [Fig.] immortality; resurrection; life after death.
- [Fig.] death.