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proper noun

Pacific n. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean.

Synonyms: Pacific Ocean.

adjective

pacific adj.

Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; as, a pacific nature or condition.

Synonyms: peaceable.

Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts.

Synonyms: irenic.

Of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean; as, Pacific islands.

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.

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

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Etymology of 'Pacific'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pacific" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tides of the Atlantic and Pacific should sweep across the Isthmus of Panama? That men should run under the Alps? That thoughts and words should be winged across the ocean without any visible or tangible medium? Yes; it is His will, if men will ...

— When the Holy Ghost is Come • Col. S. L. Brengle

... fish on the Atlantic Coast, sturgeon on the Pacific Coast, or at any rate in California waters, is of fine quality and could easily be substituted ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various

... should a Balance of Power be necessary to the maintenance of European Peace when we do not consider the preponderance of a single Power, such as the United States in North, Central and South America, or Great Britain in the Pacific or Southern Asia dangerous to the peace of the whole world? Why, finally, to press Prince Buelow's logic home, if members of different nationalities cannot live side by side without playing the game of Hammer ...

— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,

... question how could this be brought about without appearing to contradict democracy? The West also had its incipient Big Business. It hinged upon railways. Now that California had been acquired, with a steady stream of migration westward, with all America dazzled more or less by gold-mines and Pacific trade, a transcontinental railway was a Western dream. But what course should it take, what favored regions were to become its immediate beneficiaries? Here was a chance for great jockeying among business interests in Congress, for slave-holders, money-lenders, railway promoters to manipulate ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... October 1945, to supervise the administration of the 11 UN trust territories; members were China, France, Russia, UK, US; it formally suspended operations 1 November 1995 after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Palau) became the Republic of Palau, a constitutional government in free association with the US; the Trusteeship Council was ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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