peacemaker

See also: Peacemaker

English

Etymology

Compound of peace +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/

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 New York Times‎^[1]:

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

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

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

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

• Armenian: խաղաղարար (hy) (xaġaġarar)
• 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 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)
• Latin: pācificātor m, pācātor m
• Macedonian: миротворец m (mirotvorec)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fredsstifter m

• 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