TRUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truce mean? 

• TRUCE (noun)
  The noun TRUCE has 1 sense:

1. a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms

  Familiarity information: TRUCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

armistice; cease-fire; truce

Hypernyms ("truce" is a kind of...):

peace (the state prevailing during the absence of war)

 Context examples 

And then, in his first gracious tones, he replied to me, Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins, said he, in the dog-watch, down came Doctor Livesey with a flag of truce.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They rode out into the hills several Sundays on their wheels, and Martin had ample opportunity to observe the armed truce that existed between Ruth and Olney.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the menacing truce that marks the meeting of wild beasts that prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We could see the man who carried the flag of truce attempting to hold Silver back.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In desperation, all but ready to surrender, to make a truce with fate until he could get a fresh start, he took the civil service examinations for the Railway Mail.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Flag of truce!” I heard someone say; and then, immediately after, with a cry of surprise, “Silver himself!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“And what do you want with your flag of truce?” he cried.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Flag of truce,” cried Silver.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)