Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pax americana

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English

Syllables: pax amer-i-cana
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.

Example Sentences

"Earlier this month Boston's WBUR radio station titled a special on US imperial power with the Latin tag Pax Americana. Tom Wolfe has written that the America of today is “now the mightiest power on earth, as omnipotent as… Rome under Julius Caesar”."
"A war like this — a voluntary war of aggression — would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences."

Etymology

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Americāna (“American”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna and earlier British Pāx Britannica.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: pāx

Phrases

rules-based order

Frequently Paired Words

rules-based order pāx

Synonyms

long peace

Questions

What does pax americana mean?: The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.
Where does pax americana come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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