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Pax Americana

Today it means: The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States. Full definition →

Latin pāx

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Latin · derived frompāx“peace”
English todayPax Americana

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Americāna (“American”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna and earlier British Pāx Britannica.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.