truce

Meaning

Noun

• a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties
• an agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time

Related

Similar words

• armistice
• ceasefire

Origin

• From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true, from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw, from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro), noun form of *triwwiz. More at true.