Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A political activist who publicly opposes war, a particular war, or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist.
Wiktionary
- n. sometimes derogatory Someone who publicly opposes armed conflict in general, or a particular conflict; or who publicly opposes the proliferation of weapons.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Derog. someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations
Etymologies
- peace + -nik (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But for actual policymaking, a Jewish peacenik is no substitute for someone with actual ties to the other perspectives in the region:”
“So, descending on Washington to hear politicians and Jewish activists underline their support for Israel might present a challenge for a left leaning "peacenik" - Jew.”
“Mr Clegg - who denied he was a "peacenik" - said control orders should go as they distracted from the "real objectives" of gathering court evidence and suspects could abscond.”
“That you remember that George McGovern, the man the right labels a peacenik, flew dozens of missions in WW II.”
The Huffington Post: Sam Greenfield: On This Memorial Day, I Ask ...
“Indeed, one Islamic '"peacenik" was interviewed on Turkish television saying he fully intended to die.”
“The "O-Bomb-A" moniker is just my way of referencing "peacenik" Barry's naive comments about invading Pakistan and bombing Iran .... as well as how he consistently bombs in the candidates debates ... you know, all the sort of stuff that the GOP would use to slaughter this pretender if he were the Democratic nominee (which, fortunately he won't be).”
“But Obama also feared that the "peacenik" label could hurt him in the fall.”
“The "peacenik" couple became Quakers, even taking the surname Stowe, after the great Quaker abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.”
“WASHINGTON: An American '' peacenik '' in possession of items relating to Mahatma Gandhi has offered to withdraw them from a scheduled auction on Thursday if the Indian government shifts its budgetary priority from military spending to health care.”
“I became friends with Nathan Yalin Mor, who was also one of the Troika running the Stern Gang, however, since he later had become a "peacenik," opting for peace between”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peacenik’.
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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nik words
nik as an ending
and beatnik wins over wordnik by
one hit
1993 W. Safire Safire's New Polit. Dict. 498 There were no-goodniks and faroutniks, beatniks, and sicknicks.beatnik, chetnik, chinovnik, computernik, dvornik, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, neatnik, noisenik, nudnik, peacenik, refusenik and 7 more...
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WF - niks
The rare occurrences of the suffix "-nik"
refusenik, peacenik, beatnik, draftnik, kibbutznik, nogoodnik, neatnik, nudnik, ispravnik, nachalnik, computernik, folknik and 12 more...
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In the "nik" of time
Well, once again I've been beaten to another list idea (see "-nik" by hap_e_wordnik). You might as well come on in and add kinnikinnick, Dubrovnik, or even minikin, if you like - I'll be out search...
sputnik, wordnik, Wordnik, beatnik, knacknik, refusenik, Nik da Grik, Arrondissement of..., chutzpanik, Dolni Dabnik, folknik, Kamnik and 10 more...
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words that I don't even imagine the m...
abishag, bellibone, cattywampus, dike-jumper, eupeptic, frumious, gazabo, hackeneyed, iatronudic, kickshaw, linsey-woolsey, maelcryptovestime... and 10 more...
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-nik
one who is
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know-it-all
eunuch, couvade, ecclesiastes, enigma, inevitable, crucible, genteel, bedlam, baculum, scapulimancy, atrophy, smut and 170 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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The New Poly-Sci Dictionary
Common Blogosphere terms
mouth breather, knuckledragger, freeper, astroturfing, reactionary, false flag, pig, flatearther, wingnut, fascist, fifth columnist, quisling and 60 more...
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people
authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
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Words and Pseudo-words That Annoy me
If I could burn words, I would burn these. ;P
irregardless, utilize, downsize, reorganization, gravitas, micromanage, can-do, paradigm, proactive, empowerment, dialogue, vertical and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peacenik.

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