peacemaker

See also: Peacemaker

English

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Etymology

Compound of peace +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/

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Noun

peacemaker (plural peacemakers)

1. A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:9:

     Bleſſed are the peacemakers: foꝛ they ſhall bee called the childꝛen of God.

   • 1989 September 3, R. W. Apple, Jr., “Carter the Peacemaker Now Turns to Ethiopia”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:

     Mr. Carter has celebrated experience as a peacemaker: he mediated the 1978 peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.

   • 2015 April 28, Ben Brumfield, “Baltimore riots: A few people tried to stop the unrest”, in CNN‎:

     The peacemakers – clergy, Gray’s family and brave residents – placed themselves in the rioters’ way.

   • 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 208:

     We're not just the law, Joe. We're the peacemakers. Like the old Colts.

   • 2025 June 18, Zachary B. Wolf, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump promised a peacemaker presidency. What happened?”, in CNN‎:

     “That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said. His time in office so far has not, at least not yet, been the era of peace.

2. (non-native speakers' English, medicine) Catachresis for pacemaker.
   • 2010, M. Valderrama, V. Navarro, M. Le Van Quyen, “Heart rate variability as measurement of heart-brain interactions”, in Epilepsies:

     Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]

   • 2014, S. Samad, SA. Khan, A. Haq, A. Riaz, “Classification of arrhythmia”, in International Journal of Electrical Energy:

     The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]

Related terms

• peacemonger

Translations

someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes

Arabic: صانِعُ ٱلسَّلام m (ṣāniʕu s-salām), مُصْلِح m (muṣliḥ) Armenian: խաղաղարար (hy) (xaġaġarar) Basque: bakegile Belarusian: міратво́рац m (miratvórac) Bulgarian: миротво́рец m (mirotvórec), помири́тел (bg) m (pomirítel), помири́телка f (pomirítelka) Carpathian Rusyn: миротворец m (myrotvorec) Chinese: Cantonese: 和事佬 (wo4 si6 lou2) Mandarin: 和事佬 (héshìlǎo), 仲裁人 (zh) (zhòngcáirén) (arbitrator) Crimean Tatar: barıştırıcı Czech: mírotvorce (cs) m, mírotvorkyně f, mírotvůrce (cs) m, mírotvůrkyně f, usmiřovatel m, usmiřovatelka f Danish: fredsstifter c Dutch: vredestichter (nl) m, pacificateur (nl) m Faroese: friðarmillumgongufólk m, sáttasemjari m French: pacificateur (fr) m, pacificatrice (fr) f Georgian: დამზავებელი (damzavebeli), მშვიდობისმყოფელი (mšvidobismq̇opeli), შემარიგებელი (šemarigebeli) German: Friedensstifter (de) m, Friedensstifterin f Greek: ειρηνοποιός (el) m or f (eirinopoiós) Ancient: εἰρηνοποιός m (eirēnopoiós) Hungarian: békeszerző (hu) Italian: pacificatore (it) m, pacificatrice f Japanese: ピースメーカー (pīsumēkā), 仲裁人 (ja) (ちゅうさいにん, chūsainin) (arbitrator) Korean: 중재인(仲裁人) (ko) (jungjaein) (arbitrator), 조정자(調停者) (ko) (jojeongja), 피스메이커 (piseumeikeo) Latin: pācificātor m, pācātor m Macedonian: миротворец m (mirotvorec) Norwegian: Bokmål: fredsstifter m Persian: Iranian Persian: مُصْلِح (mosleh), صُلْح‌دَهَنْدِه (solh-dahande) Polish: rozjemca (pl) m, rozjemczyni f, negocjator pokojowy m Portuguese: pacificador (pt) m Romanian: pacificator (ro) m, pacificatoare (ro) f Russian: миротво́рец (ru) m (mirotvórec) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: миротво́рац m Roman: mirotvórac (sh) m Slovak: mierotvorca m, zmierovateľ m Slovene: mirovnik m, mirovnica f Spanish: pacificador (es) m, pacificadora (es) f Swedish: fredsstiftare (sv) c Turkish: arabulucu (tr) Ukrainian: миротво́рець m (myrotvórecʹ) Vietnamese: người hoà giải