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Definition: Armistice |
ArmisticeNoun1. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "armistice" was first used: 1707. (references) |
Etymology: Armistice \Ar"mis*tice\, noun. [French expression armistice, from (an assumed word) Latin armistitium; arma arms stare, statum (combining form, -stitum), to stand still.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ArmisticeSynonyms: cease-fire (n), truce (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An armistice is the end of a war, when the warring parties agree to stop fighting. The most famous armistice, the one still meant when people say simply "The Armistice", is the one at the end of World War I, on November 11, 1918. Armistice Day is still celebrated in Great Britain on the anniversary of that armistice. In some other countries it is still observed as Remembrance Day.
An armistice is not the same as a peace treaty, which may take months or even years to agree on.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Armistice."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pacification | Truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire, cartel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Armistice |
| English words defined with "armistice": Argonne, Argonne Forest, Armistice Day ♦ Cessation of arms ♦ Meuse, Meuse River, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation ♦ November 11 ♦ Veterans' Day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "armistice": Armistice 1918 ♦ Remembrance Day. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Armistice" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (armistice). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Saturday Night Armistice (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. Army. Base Hospital No.37, Dartford, England. : The Red Cross announces that armistice has been signed. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Dressed with flags, circa late 1918, possibly in celebration of the 11 November 1918 Armistice. Note her "dazzle" camouflage. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Fires her forward 8"/55 guns at enemy gun positions at Hungnam, North Korea, on 26 July 1953, the day before the Korean armistice was signed. Three shells are faintly visible in the upper right. On 2159 hrs on 27 July 1953, a minute prior to the armistice taking effect, Saint Paul fired the last Navy bombardment round of the Korean War. Credit: NAVY. |  | Time for an armistice on the industrial front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Armistice Day, 1931. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Coolidge officiates at dedication of Liberty War Memorial on Armistice Day before throng of 175,000. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Armistice Day parade in Colchester, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Colchester, Connecticut. Armistice Day. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Capitol. U.S. Capitol dome on Armistice Day 1929. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Secretary of War John Weeks, Pres. Calvin Coolidge, and Asst. Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Armistice Day. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Thucydides | Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | These warships will have been disarmed as provided in Article XXIII of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | South Korea | The Military Armistice Commission (MAC) was created in 1953 to oversee and enforce the terms of the armistice. (references) |
North Korea | In 1953, the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) was created to oversee and enforce the terms of the armistice. (references) | |
South Korea | Although armistice negotiations began in July 1951, hostilities continued until 1953 with heavy losses on both sides. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In the year and a half following the armistice, rents, food, and clothing shot to higher and still higher levels. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We cannot repeat the mistakes made twice in this century when armistice was followed by recklessness and defense was purged as if the world was permanently safe. |
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| "Armistice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.79% of the time. "Armistice" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.79% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.24% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.97% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "armistice": Armistice 1918 ♦ armistice day ♦ armistice negotiations. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
armistice | 30 |
armistice day | 22 |
armistice korean war | 5 |
armistice korean | 4 |
1 armistice war world | 3 |
armistice punk | 3 |
11th 1918 armistice november | 2 |
armistice britain day first war world | 2 |
armistice blizzard day | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "armistice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | armëpushim (cease fire, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هدنة (cease fire, intermission, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | примирение (acquiescence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 停战 (truce), 休戰 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přímìří (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Wapenstilstand 1918 (Armistice 1918, Remembrance Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aselepo (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | armistice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Waffenstillstand (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακωχή (cease fire, ceasefire, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שביתת שק (cease fire, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fegyverszünet (cessation of arms, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gencatan senjata (ceasefire, disarmament, truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | armistizio (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 停戦 (ceasefire), 休戦 (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうせ" (bows and arrows, hades, nether regions, truce, war), ていせ" (beach line, ceasefire, commentary on the Book of Odes by Zheng Xuan, detention, quarantine, shoreline, stopping a ship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | farkaght chaggee, aash caggee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armisticeay armistício (truce), trégua (truce). (various references) armistiţiu (truce), acalmie (lull, pause, respite, rest, truce). (various references) перемирие (cessation of arms, cessation of hostilities, truce). (various references) primirje (truce). (various references) armisticio. (various references) vapenvila (cease fire, truce). (various references) การพักรบ. (various references) ateşkes (ceasefire, truce). (various references) коротке перемир'я. (various references) sự đình chiến cuộc đình chiến ngắn. (various references) cadoediad (truce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arma, indutiae. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "armistice": armistices. (additional references) | |
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"Armistice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arisitide, aristic, aristocop, armistace, armistic, armitice, armstice. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "armistice" (pronounced Ä"rmustus) |
| 4 | -s t u s | asbestos, hostess, injustice, justice, priestess, robustas. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, arthritis, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, impetus, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, precipitous, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airtimes, casimire, ceramist, matrices, meristic, meticais, mistrace, scimetar, scimitar, scimiter, seriatim, trisemic. | |
-2 letters: airiest, airtime, amities, cristae, eristic, imarets, maestri, metrics, miriest, miscite, misrate, mistier, raciest, rimiest, satiric, sematic, simitar, smartie, stearic, trismic. | |
-3 letters: aimers, airest, amices, armets, armies, camise, carets, caries, cartes, caster, caters, cerias, citers, cities, crates, creams, crimes, crista, ericas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: armistices, ceramicist, criminates, erraticism, imbricates, matricides. | |
+2 letters: acidimeters, arithmetics, ceramicists, creationism, erraticisms, manneristic, martensitic, mediatrices, miscreating, miscreation, romanticise, timocracies. | |
+3 letters: acidimetries, axisymmetric, carminatives, climacterics, craniotomies, creationisms, discriminate, dominatrices, gastrocnemii, importancies, imprecations, incriminates, isodiametric, magistracies, matriarchies, mercantilism, mercantilist, meristematic, meristically, metrications, miscreations, radiochemist, recriminates, romanticised, romanticises, romanticizes, sectarianism, semitropical. | |
+4 letters: acclimatizers, actinometries, anisometropic, antisymmetric, aromaticities, autoeroticism, biometricians, calorimetries, ceremonialist, commercialist, commiserating, commiseration, commiserative, craniometries, credentialism, criminalities, determinacies, discriminated, discriminates, geometricians, histaminergic, imperialistic, isometrically, masticatories, materialistic, mercantilisms, mercantilists, meritocracies, microclimates, misarticulate, mistranscribe, muscularities, myocarditises, ovariectomies, racemizations, radiochemists, sectarianisms, semiparasitic, theatricalism, tragicomedies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 6D 69 73 74 69 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -- .. ... - .. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r m i s t i c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 006D 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358479758586756971 |
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