peacetime

peacetime

English

Etymology

peace +‎ time

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːstaɪm/

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Noun

peacetime (usually uncountable, plural peacetimes)

1. The period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
   • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎:

     When the country was blockaded during the second world war and the nation’s farmers were told to convert scrub and pasture to sown fields, arable land doubled. In peacetime, the patriotic drive for self-sufficiency continued

Alternative forms

• peace time

Antonyms

• wartime

Translations

period of peace

Arabic: وَقْت السَّلَامِ‎ m (waqt as-salāmi), وَقْت السِّلْمِ‎ m (waqt as-silmi), زَمَن السَّلَامِ‎ m (zaman as-salāmi), زَمَن السِّلْمِ‎ m (zaman as-silmi) Belarusian: мі́рны час m (mírny čas) Bulgarian: ми́рно вре́ме n (mírno vréme) Chinese: Mandarin: 和平時期, 和平时期 (hépíng shíqī), 平時 (zh), 平时 (zh) (píngshí) Czech: doba míru f Danish: fredstid c Dutch: vredestijd (nl) m Estonian: rahuaeg Finnish: rauhanaika French: temps de paix m German: Friedenszeit (de) f Hungarian: békeidő (hu) Italian: tempo di pace m Japanese: 平和時代 (へいわじだい, heiwa jidai), 平時 (ja) (へいじ, heiji) Korean: 평화시(平和時) (pyeonghwasi), 평시(平時) (ko) (pyeongsi) Limburgish: vrieëdtied m Macedonian: мирно време n (mirno vreme) Malay: masa aman Norwegian: Bokmål: fredstid m or f Nynorsk: fredstid f Persian: زمان صلح‎ (zamân-e solh) Polish: okres pokoju m, okres pokojowy m Portuguese: tempo de paz m Romanian: timp de pace n Russian: ми́рное вре́мя n (mírnoje vrémja) Slovak: mierový čas m Spanish: tiempo de paz m Swedish: fredstid (sv) c Tajik: замони осоишта (zamoni osoyišta), замони сулх (zamoni sulx), давраи сулх (davrayi sulx) Ukrainian: ми́рний час m (mýrnyj čas) Vietnamese: thời bình (vi) (時平)