peacemaker

Compound of peace +‎ maker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/

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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^[1], 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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     “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 […]

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