a formal agreement during a war to stop fighting and discuss making peacesynonymceasefireThe armistice was signed on 4 December.Wordfinderpeaceagreement,armistice,ceasefire,disengage,negotiate,peace,reparations,surrender,treaty,truceOxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + armisticeask for,call for,seek,…prepositionarmistice withSeefull entrySee related entries:PeacekeepingWord Originearly 18th cent.: from French, or from modern Latin armistitium, from arma ‘armour, arms’ + -stitium ‘stoppage’.
See armistice in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
