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peace·ful

(pēs′fəl)

adj.

1. Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil: a peaceful hike through the forest. See Synonyms at calm.

2. Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable: a peaceful solution to the dispute.

3. Not involving violence or employing force: a peaceful protest.

peace′ful·ly adv.

peace′ful·ness n.

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Adv.

peacefully - in a peaceful manner; "the hen settled herself on the nest most peacefully"

peacefully

adverb

1. without violence, cordially, amicably, harmoniously, peaceably, without disturbance The rally passed off peacefully.

2. quietly, soundly, calmly, serenely, placidly The baby was sleeping peacefully.

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Translations

بِسَلام، بِهُدوء

pokojně

fredeligt

friedlich

paisiblement pacifiquement

friîsamlega

pacificamente tranquillamente

vredig

мирно

mirno

huzur içinde

和平地

peacefully

[ˈpiːsfəlɪ] ADV

1. (= non-violently) [demonstrate, live, co-exist] → pacíficamente

2. (= calmly) → tranquilamente
he was sleeping peacefully → dormía tranquilamente
to die peacefully → morir sin sufrir

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

peacefully

[ˈpiːsf^ʊli] adv

[resolve] → de manière pacifique

[sleep] → paisiblement

[die] → paisiblement

(= without trouble) [pass off, end] → dans le calme

(= without conflict) [live] → paisiblement
to live peacefully with sb → vivre en paix avec qn

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peacefully

adv → friedlich; to die peacefully (in one’s sleep) → sanft sterben or entschlafen (liter)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

peacefully

[ˈpiːsfəlɪ] adv (coexist, reign) → in pace; (demonstrate) → senza violenza; (sleep, work, live) → tranquillamente

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peace

(piːs) noun

1. (sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war. Does our country want peace or war?; (also adjective) a peace treaty.

2. freedom from disturbance; quietness. I need some peace and quiet.

ˈpeaceable adjective

liking peace; not fighting, quarrelling etc. He's a peaceable person.

ˈpeaceably adverb

ˈpeaceful adjective

quiet; calm; without worry or disturbance. It's very peaceful in the country.

ˈpeacefully adverb

ˈpeacefulness noun

ˈpeacemaker noun

a person who tries to make peace between enemies, people who are quarrelling etc. When my brother and sister quarrel I act as peacemaker.

ˈpeace-offering noun

something offered or given to make peace. She took him a drink as a peace-offering.

ˈpeacetime noun

a time when there is no war. Even in peacetime, a soldier's life is hard.

at peace

not at war; not fighting. The two countries were at peace.

in peace

1. without disturbance. Why can't you leave me in peace?

2. not wanting to fight. They said they came in peace.

make peace

to agree to end a war. The two countries finally made peace (with each other).

peace of mind

freedom from worry etc.

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If with thee be broken hearts, Joy so peacefully departs, That its echo still doth dwell, Like the murmur in the shell.

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She died very peacefully, so that I didn't know she was dead till the sister told me."

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"Wait a minute and I'll come right back," answered the old fellow, thinking he had to deal with one of those boys who love to roam around at night ringing people's bells while they are peacefully asleep.

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Old Mother Simon had returned to Felicite and was peacefully falling asleep.

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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth.

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A snowy handkerchief of lisse crape is folded neatly across her bosom; her glossy brown silk dress rustles peacefully, as she glides up and down the chamber.

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Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was happening.

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On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty with flour whitening their carts- on that narrow dam amid the wagons and the cannon, under the horses' hoofs and between the wagon wheels, men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way.

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And such indeed was the purpose of his attitude--which meant that the white stranger within his village still slept peacefully.

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There is the "Sea of Serenity," over which the young girl bends; "The Lake of Dreams," reflecting a joyous future; "The Sea of Nectar," with its waves of tenderness and breezes of love; "The Sea of Fruitfulness;" "The Sea of Crises;" then the "Sea of Vapors," whose dimensions are perhaps a little too confined; and lastly, that vast "Sea of Tranquillity," in which every false passion, every useless dream, every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed, and whose waves emerge peacefully into the "Lake of Death!"

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In future I am not to go on living peacefully in my little corner, poor though that corner be I am not to go on living, as the proverb has it, without muddying the water, or hurting any one, or forgetting the fear of the Lord God and of oneself?

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Murder in the first degree is flattered by his fate up to the point of letting him die peacefully in Boston after these dealings of his in England; and altogether his story could not be commended to people with a morbid taste for bloodshed.