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truce
" There can be no truce between science and religion."
John B. S. Haldane

Meaning of "truce" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRUCE

From the plural of Old English treowtrow.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TRUCE

truːs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRUCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Truce is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRUCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ceasefire

A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces. An armistice is a formal agreement to end fighting.

Definition of truce in the English dictionary

The definition of truce in the dictionary is an agreement to stop fighting, esp temporarily. Other definition of truce is temporary cessation of something unpleasant.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRUCE

abstruse · Bruce · ceruse · crouse · douce · Elbrus · Goes · goose · induce · introduce · juice · loose · luce · moose · mousse · produce · reduce · reproduce · spruce · Zeus

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRUCE

truantship · truceless · truchman · Trucial Coast · Trucial Oman · Trucial Sheikhdoms · Trucial States · truck · truck driver · truck farm · truck farmer · truck farming · truck garden · truck racing · truck system · truckable · truckage · trucker · truckful · truckie

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRUCE

balsam spruce · black spruce · blue spruce · conduce · deduce · deuce · Douglas spruce · duce · flag of truce · hemlock spruce · lettuce · Norway spruce · puce · sauce · seduce · sitka spruce · soy sauce · tomato sauce · traduce · white spruce

Synonyms and antonyms of truce in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRUCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «truce» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «truce» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF TRUCE

Find out the translation of truce to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of truce from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «truce» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

停战
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

tregua
570 millions of speakers
en

English

truce
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

संघर्ष विराम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هُدْنَة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

перемирие
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

trégua
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সাময়িক যুদ্ধবিরতি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

trêve
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Gencatan senjata
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Waffenstillstand
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

休戦
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

휴전
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Gencatan senjata
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thỏa ước ngừng bắn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சமாதான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

युद्धविराम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ateşkes
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tregua
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

rozejm
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

перемир´я
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

armistițiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκεχειρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skietstilstand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vapenvila
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

våpenhvile
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of truce

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUCE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of truce
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «truce».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about truce

EXAMPLES

7 QUOTES WITH «TRUCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word truce.
1
Joan of Arc
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
2
Jeff Grubb
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
3
John B. S. Haldane
There can be no truce between science and religion.
4
William Hull
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
5
Osama bin Laden
We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.
6
Michelle Pfeiffer
The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.
7
Bob Woodward
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRUCE»

Discover the use of truce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to truce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Describes the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914 and features quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional source material.
Jim Murphy, 2009
2
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914
Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton have combed war diaries, talked to participants and consulted a wide range of contemporary letters, diaries and newspapers to produce this unique account.
Malcolm Brown, Shirley Seaton, 2011
3
Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar ...
In Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of a decade and a half of civil war.
Reinoud Leenders, 2012
4
The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte, 1801-1803
A study of the hardening of British public opinion against Bonaparte and an examination of the events that caused it.
John D. Grainger, 2004
5
The Truce of God
In this freshly updated edition, "The Truce of God" speaks anew to the realities of life in a terror-filled world.
Rowan Williams, 2005
6
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Peace Or Truce
Revised with an analysis of the escalation of the Darfur war, implementation of the peace agreement and implications of the Southern referendum.
Douglas Hamilton Johnson, 2011
7
The Baby Truce
Reggie Tremont has always had clear goals.
Jeannie Watt, 2011
8
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas Truce to history. It had been lost in the tide of horror that filled the battlefields of Europe for months and years afterward.
Stanley Weintraub, 2001
9
The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce
Author Michael S. Sweeney takes a chronological approach, considering freedoms and restraints such as the First Amendment, court decisions, and government and military directives that have affected the press during World Wars I and II, the ...
Michael S. Sweeney, 2006
10
Peace on Bougainville: Truce Monitoring Group
This is a unique look at the country of Bougainville, its people, their history, and their move toward peace told from the perspectives of the people involved both within and outside of the process.
Rebecca Adams, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRUCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term truce is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Colombia Suspends Raids on FARC Camps Following Rebel Truce
FARC leaders said on July 20 that they were resuming a unilateral truce the rebels had suspended two months earlier following an army bombing of one of their ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
2
Saudi-led coalition flouts Yemen truce, hinders aid delivery
Warplanes have not stopped their bombing campaign of Yemeni rebels despite a 6-day truce declared by the UN. Aid organizations have warned that this turn of ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
3
Yemen Truce Deal Is Reached, UN Says
In the past week, while the various sides in the conflict have haggled over details of a truce, Yemen has suffered some of the deadliest violence since the start in ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
Aid groups rush to help civilians in Yemen as end of truce looms
(CNN) The partially observed truce in Yemen is set to end Sunday with little hope in sight of a resolution to the bloody conflict in one of the Middle East's poorest ... «CNN, May 15»
5
El Salvador's homicide rate soaring with gang truce no longer in effect
El Salvador had more homicides in March than any other single month in a decade, a dark milestone that some attribute to the collapse of a gang truce and one ... «CBC.ca, Apr 15»
6
Clashes rage in Ukrainian town, making mockery of truce
Under the truce, fighting was supposed to stop and heavy weapons were to be pulled back from the front line. Responsibility for verifying the cease-fire lies with ... «Yahoo News, Mar 15»
7
Libya's recognised government declares truce
BENGHAZI, LIBYA // The army of Libya's internationally recognised government declared a ceasefire on Sunday, two days after the Fajr Libya militia alliance ... «The National, Jan 15»
8
Syrian rebels, government reach truce in besieged area
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and government forces began observing a 10-day truce on Thursday in the last rebel-held area of the central city of Homs, ... «Yahoo News, Jan 15»
9
Queen Elizabeth calls for UK reconciliation, citing legacy of 1914 …
Elizabeth cited the “Christmas truce” in 1914 as an example to be remembered. “Something remarkable did happen that Christmas, exactly 100 years ago today ... «National Post, Dec 14»
10
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914
Pope Benedict XV, who took office that September, had originally called for a Christmas truce, an idea that was officially rejected. Yet it seems the sheer misery ... «TIME, Dec 14»
REFERENCE
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