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PEACE TREATY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peace treaty mean? 

PEACE TREATY (noun)
  The noun PEACE TREATY has 1 sense:

1. a treaty to cease hostilitiesplay

  Familiarity information: PEACE TREATY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEACE TREATY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A treaty to cease hostilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pacification; peace; peace treaty

Context example:

peace came on November 11th

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)


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