Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 721 (Peace)

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#721. Peace. -- N. peace; amity &c. (friendship) 888; harmony &c. (concord) 714; tranquility, calm &c. (quiescence) 265; truce, peace treaty, accord &c. (pacification) 723; peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.

piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.

[symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove.

[person who favors peace] dove.

pax Romana[Lat]; Pax Americana[Lat][obs].

V. be at peace; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714.

make peace &c. 723.

Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.

dovish

Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello [Lat][Nepos]; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "they make a desert and they call it peace".