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# peacemaker

«peacemaker» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who helps people or groups stop fighting and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a peacemaker, peacemakers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who helps people or groups stop fighting and make friends again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#m1)

2) (Bible) In the Bible, Jesus says «Blessed are the peacemakers», and Christians believe peacemakers do God's work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#m2)

3) (informal) Someone in a family or class who often calms arguments down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories the peacemaker steps between two sides and helps them listen; in school it names a pupil who helps settle playground quarrels; in church it comes from the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount. Phrases: «play the peacemaker», «act as peacemaker», «a natural peacemaker».

### examples

- My sister is the peacemaker when my brothers argue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x1)
- The teacher asked Ava to be the peacemaker at the football game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x2)
- «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x3)
- A good peacemaker listens to both sides first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x4)
- The two kings sent a peacemaker to stop the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x5)
- Grandad always played the peacemaker at family dinners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x6)
- Being a peacemaker takes patience and courage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/#x7)

### note

Countable noun, one word, plural peacemakers. A peacemaker is not the same as a person who simply keeps quiet; the peacemaker works to fix the quarrel. Related: peace, make peace, peaceable, peacekeeper (a soldier who keeps peace after a war).

### In the corpora

- [Jesus said, «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «peacemaker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peacemaker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.