peace and understanding
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3.0
- noun
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paz y entendimiento
- I hope you have gathered peace and understanding in your heart and squeeze that beautiful little girl of yours extra tight when you start feeling sad.
- promote peace and understanding
So my hope is you know there are religions talking about Messiah coming to earth, bringing peace and understanding.
- So my hope is you know there are religions talking about Messiah coming to earth, bringing peace and understanding.
Examples
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The organization sought to foster cultural exchanges to promote world peace and understanding.
Academic text (2015) -
Let's drink a great big slurpy toast to peace and understanding around the globe.
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I pray for peace and understanding.
Blog text (4) -
Pray for peace and understanding, not revenge in the name of justice.
Blog text (7) -
I am a God-loving individual who has dedicated his life to peace and understanding.
Blog text (17) -
And always, for a world of peace and understanding, free of hate and famine, abuse and violence.
Blog text (22) -
There are those of you who live under this delusion of peace and understanding through tolerance and love.
Blog text (14) -
His main aim, he insisted, was to help promote peace and understanding, as well as to run his bank profitably.
Academic text (2003) -
I am relieved that such blatant acts of hate and discrimination have not escaped the scrutiny of universal believers of tolerance, respect, peace, and understanding.
Blog text (9) -
The organization sought to foster cultural exchanges to promote peace and understanding.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A calm, friendly relationship between people or groups without argument
361
1.0
A situation in which people have the same opinion or give their approval
146
2.5
Agreement and peaceful working together between people or ideas
35
4.0
A situation in which people or groups agree with each other
9
3.9
A situation where two people understand each other and get along
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7.4
A friendly, peaceful relationship between people or countries
Antonyms
243
1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
How Harmonious
146
2.5
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3.0
114
5.2
119
2.0
160
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
peace + and + understanding
The phrase’s meaning is directly composed from the literal senses of its parts: 'peace' (harmony/cooperative relations) combined with 'understanding' (mutual comprehension), so a learner who knows those words can infer the overall idea. The coordinating structure 'and' simply links two transparent concepts, a pattern common across languages and well within B1 competence.
Etymology
The phrase peace and understanding creates a simple picture: people sitting calmly, stopping fights as the peace part and listening to each other as the understanding part so everyone's feelings and ideas are clear. That's why it means 'living in harmony' and 'mutual understanding'.