noun
Meaning 1
The process of pacifying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pacification
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noun
Meaning 2
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: counterinsurgency
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conflict, struggle, battle
noun
Meaning 3
the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
- his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mollification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appeasement, calming
noun
Meaning 4
a treaty to cease hostilities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- peace came on November 11th
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peace, peace treaty
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: treaty, pact, accord
Narrower terms: Peace of Westphalia, Treaty of Versailles
History
Etymology
From Middle English pacificacion, from Old French pacification.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: pacificación — the process of pacifying
- Bulgarian: усмиряване (usmirjavane) — the process of pacifying
- Bulgarian: умиротворяване (umirotvorjavane) — the process of pacifying
- Chinese Mandarin: 安撫 /安抚 (ānfǔ) — the process of pacifying
- Chinese Mandarin: 綏靖 /绥靖 (suíjìng) — the process of pacifying
- Dutch: pacificatie — the process of pacifying
- Finnish: rauhoittaminen — the process of pacifying
- French: pacification — the process of pacifying
- Galician: pacificación — the process of pacifying
- German: Befriedung — the process of pacifying
- Greek: ειρήνευση (eirínefsi) — the process of pacifying
- Hindi: शमन (śaman) — the process of pacifying
- Indonesian: pasifikasi — the process of pacifying
- Japanese: 鎮静 (chinsei) — the process of pacifying
- Latin: pācātiō — the process of pacifying
- Latin: pācificātiō — the process of pacifying
- Latvian: pacifikācija — the process of pacifying
- Malay: pendamaian — the process of pacifying
- Malay: pengamanan — the process of pacifying
- Malay: pasifikasi — the process of pacifying
- Māori: whakangehenga — the process of pacifying
- Norwegian: passivisering — the process of pacifying
- Polish: pacyfikacja — the process of pacifying
- Portuguese: pacificação — the process of pacifying
- Russian: пацифика́ция (pacifikácija) — the process of pacifying
- Russian: умиротворе́ние (umirotvorénije) — the process of pacifying
- Russian: усмире́ние (usmirénije) — the process of pacifying
- Russian: успокое́ние (uspokojénije) — the process of pacifying
- Spanish: pacificación — the process of pacifying
- Swedish: pacificering — the process of pacifying
- Ukrainian: пацифіка́ція (pacyfikácija) — the process of pacifying
- Ukrainian: умиротво́рення (umyrotvórennja) — the process of pacifying
- Ukrainian: утихоми́рення (utyxomýrennja) — the process of pacifying
- Ukrainian: заспоко́єння (zaspokójennja) — the process of pacifying