Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to diminish or put an end to conflict; appeasing.
- adjective Of a peaceful nature; tranquil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; peace-making; conciliatory; mild; appeasing: as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power.
- Peaceful; not warlike: as, a man of pacific disposition.
- Characterized by peace or calm; calm; tranquil: as, a pacific state of things.
- [capitalized] Appellative of the ocean lying between the west coast of America and the east coast of Asia: so called on account of the exemption from violent, tempests which early navigators supposed it to enjoy; hence, relating to or connected with that ocean.
- =Syn. 1-3. Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, gentle, quiet, smooth, unruffled. Pacific, making or desiring to make peace; peaceable, desiring to be at peace, free from the disposition to quarrel; peaceful, in a state of peace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean.
- adjective Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome
- adjective Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory.
- adjective of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean.
- adjective the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the
Pacific , and, formerly, theSouth sea .
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- adjective
Calm ,peaceful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
- noun the largest ocean in the world
- adjective relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean
- adjective promoting peace
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It could be very significant, however, but they don't anticipate that it's going to be moving out throughout the pacific, and so it won't be what we call a pacific wide tsunami.
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So with warships he and his allies established what he called a pacific blockade on Venezuelan ports.
A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Owen Wister 1899
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But the pacific is only a miniseries, so it's not really fair to compare other tv series to that.
AMC Orders Six Episodes of Walking Dead, Jonny Lee Miller Expected to Star | /Film 2010
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So, which is it, global warming causeing snow storms on the east coast or unusually warm weather in pacific North West?
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Ask anyone that fought in pacific if they would have wanted to root japs out of caves without a flame thrower!!!
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Americanism, untainted and unvarnished by a hyphen or an "ism," especially when the word pacific precedes the latter.
The Story of The American Legion George Seay Wheat
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"person" but yet in 1886 in Southern pacific v Santa Clara County, Corporations were declared
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"person" but yet in 1886 in Southern pacific v Santa Clara County, Corporations were declared
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"person" but yet in 1886 in Southern pacific v Santa Clara County, Corporations were declared
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Getting across the pacific is a big 24 hour fixed cost followed by jet lag.
Kiwiana, Eric Crampton | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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