Halcyon vs Peaceable - What's the difference?

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Halcyon is a related term of peaceable.

As a proper noun halcyon

is .

As an adjective peaceable is

favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc).

halcyon

English

Noun

(en noun)

In classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence (poetic) a kingfisher.

*, II.12:

the Halcyon' bird, or as some call it Alcedo or Kings-fisher, exceeds all mens conceit..

* 1665 , (John Dryden), (The Indian Emperour) , IV iv 132:

Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.

* c''.1880 , (Ambrose Bierce), '' :

And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.

* Dryden

Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.

A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon'', such as the sacred kingfisher ''(Halcyon sancta) of Australia.

Adjective

(en adjective)
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher

Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

Quotations

{{timeline, 1700s=1787, 1800s=1842, 1900s=1919 1963}} * 1787 — *: Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age. * 1842 — , Cicero *:* Deep, halcyon repose. * 1919 — *: I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime. *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham) , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

Synonyms

* at peace, blissful, calm, peaceful, prelapsarian, relaxed, serene

Derived terms

* halcyon days

peaceable
English

Adjective
(en adjective)
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).

* 1999 , Faisal Bodi, The Guardian , 29 Dec 1999:

But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable .

* 2011 , ‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist , 8 Feb 2011:

But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable , pluralist democracy.

Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.

* , Episode 16:

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head [...].

Derived terms
* peaceability * peaceableness * peaceably
See also
* peaceful