Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable)A (short) cessation of combat.

    (zeitweiliger) Waffenstillstand, Waffenpause

    переми́риеperemírije, зати́шьеzatíšʹje

  2. (countable)A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.

    Waffenstillstand, endgültiges Schweigen der Waffen

    прекраще́ние огня́prekraščénije ognjá, переми́риеperemírije

    припине́ння вогню́prypynénnja vohnjú, переми́р'яperemýrʺja

More definitions
  • a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms

Examples

5 sentences

  1. The children commemorate the centenary of the armistice.

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  2. This is not peace; it's an armistice for twenty years.

    ruЭто не мир, а перемирие на двадцать лет.

    deDas ist kein Frieden. Das ist ein Waffenstillstand auf zwanzig Jahre.

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  3. It's an armistice.

    ruЭто перемирие.

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  4. The signature of the armistice put an end to years of bloody conflicts, heavy in human and material losses.

    ruПодписание перемирия положило конец годам кровавых конфликтов с тяжелыми людскими и материальными потерями.

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  5. Three years later, overrun by the Soviets, Romania signed an armistice.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
formal agreement to end combat:
Русский
By meaning 2
(short) cessation of combat — see also ceasefire, truce:
formal agreement to end combat:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(short) cessation of combat — see also ceasefire, truce:
formal agreement to end combat:

Origin

From Late Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”) + sistēre (from sistō (“to

From Late Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”) + sistēre (from sistō (“to halt, stand still”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand up”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The word is cognate with French armistice, Italian armistizio, Portuguese armistício, Spanish armisticio.

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Forms

plural: armistices
Singulararmistice
Pluralarmistices

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
ceasefiretruce
Close in meaning
  • a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms:cease-firetruce

See also

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