Results for pacific

Definitions of pacific:

part of speech: noun

The ocean between Asia and America, so called because found peaceful by its discoverer Magellan, after weathering Cape Horn.

part of speech: adjective

Peacemaking; conciliatory; appeasing; calm.

part of speech: adjective

Peace- making: appeasing: mild: tranquil.

Usage examples for pacific:

• We are, as you will have gathered from our first address, diamond and precious stone merchants, and we do a very large business in the East generally; also among the Pacific Islands and in Australia. "A Crime of the Under-seas", Guy Boothby

• I left St. Louis one Sunday night on the Missouri Pacific "Tales of the Road", Charles N. Crewdson

• Had it not been for that bilious attack of yours you would have been with me, and, in that case, you would have recognised him, and we should have been spared this voyage across the Pacific "A Crime of the Under-seas", Guy Boothby

• At the end of that time he had turned up in Kettle Falls, but quite unable- or else unwilling- to tell why the river had carried him eighty- five miles up stream instead of down to the Pacific "Down the Columbia", Lewis R. Freeman