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PEACE TREATY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A treaty to cease hostilities
Example:
peace came on November 11th
Synonyms:
pacification; peace; peace treaty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("peace treaty" is a kind of...):
accord; pact; treaty (a written agreement between two states or sovereigns)
Instance hyponyms:
Peace of Westphalia (the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648)
Treaty of Versailles (the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans)
