peacetime

English

Etymology

From peace +‎ time.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiːstaɪm/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

peacetime (usually uncountable, plural peacetimes)

  1. The period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
    • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      When the country was blockaded during the second world war and the nation’s farmers were told to convert scrub and pasture to sown fields, arable land doubled. In peacetime, the patriotic drive for self-sufficiency continued

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