peacemaker
Meanings
noun
- A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
- Catachresis for pacemaker.
noun
- An early type of American revolver, especially the Colt 1873 Single Action Army model.
- The B-36 bomber.
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Etymology
Compound of peace + maker. First attested in the Tyndale Bible from 1526, as a translation of Koine Greek εἰρηνοποιοί (eirēnopoioí, “peacemaker”), a hapax legomenon found in the New Testament. (The Wycliffe Bible from 1395 instead uses "pesible men", to translate Latin pacifici from the Vulgate)
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