truce
/tɹus/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
Example Sentences
- "An uneasy truce"
- "[I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms."
- "He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days."
- "They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce."
- "‘The Truce holds, Bagheera. This is no time to talk of hunting.’"
- "[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding."
Etymology
From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trewes, trēowa, *treuwu, *trewwō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹus/
- British English: /tɹuːs/