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Pacific Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pacific? [n] the largest ocean in the world [adj] promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up" [adj] disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a peaceable and orderly manner" [adj] relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific islands" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pacific: Pacific Ocean \| peaceable \| peaceful Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pacific: appeasing \| at peace \| at rest \| bloodless \| broken \| calm \| chastened \| civilian \| cloistered \| conciliatory \| concordant \| cool \| domesticated \| dovelike \| dovish \| dwindling \| ebbing \| even-tenored \| gentle \| halcyon \| housebroken \| humble \| hushed \| idyllic \| impassive \| irenic \| isolated \| lamblike \| meek \| mild \| moldering \| mollifying \| nonaggressive \| noncombatant \| nonmilitant \| nonviolent \| orderly \| pacificatory \| pacifist \| pacifistic \| pacifying \| pastoral \| peaceable \| peaceful \| peace-loving \| peacetime \| piping \| placative \| placatory \| placid \| propitiative \| propitiatory \| quiescent \| quiet \| reconciliatory \| reposeful \| reposing \| restful \| resting \| secluded \| sequestered \| sequestrated \| serene \| sheltered \| smooth \| soft \| soothing \| still \| still as death \| stillish \| stilly \| stoic \| stolid \| subdued \| subsiding \| tame \| tamed \| tranquil \| unagitated \| unbellicose \| uncontentious \| undisturbed \| unhostile \| unmilitant \| unmilitary \| unmoved \| unperturbed \| unruffled \| unstirring \| untroubled \| waning See Also \| Aleutian Islands \| Aleutians \| Antarctic Ocean \| Australasia \| Austronesia \| battle of the Philippine Sea \| Belau \| Bering Sea \| Catalina Island \| Coral Sea \| East China Sea \| East Indies \| Guadalupe Island \| Gulf of Alaska \| Gulf of Tehuantepec \| invasion of Iwo \| Iwo \| Iwo Jima \| Japan \| Japanese Archipelago \| Japanese Islands \| Malay Archipelago \| New Guinea \| New Zealand \| ocean \| Oceania \| Oceanica \| Osaka Bay \| Palau \| Palau Islands \| Papua \| Pelew \| Philippine Islands \| Philippine Sea \| Philippines \| Puget Sound \| San Diego Bay \| San Francisco Bay \| Santa Catalina \| Sea of Japan \| Sea of Okhotsk \| South China Sea \| Wake \| Wake Island \| Yellow Sea Pacific In Webster's Dictionary \Pa*cif"ic\, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See {Pacify}.] Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition. {Pacific Ocean}, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the {Pacific}, and, formerly, the {South sea}. Syn: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.

Pacific Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pacific?

[n] the largest ocean in the world
[adj] promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up"
[adj] disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a peaceable and orderly manner"
[adj] relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific islands"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pacific: Pacific Ocean | peaceable | peaceful

Pacific In Webster's Dictionary

\Pa*cif"ic\, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See
{Pacify}.]
Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace;
of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome;
conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or
condition.

{Pacific Ocean}, the ocean between America and Asia, so
   called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on
   account of the exemption from violent tempests which he
   enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the
   {Pacific}, and, formerly, the {South sea}.

Syn: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm;
     quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.

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