pacific

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Pacific
    adj 1: relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific
           islands"
    2: disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific
       temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather
       than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a
       peaceable and orderly manner" [syn: {pacific}, {peaceable}]
    3: promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that
       no troops were called up"
    n 1: the largest ocean in the world [syn: {Pacific}, {Pacific
         Ocean}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pacific \Pacific\ prop. n.
   The {Pacific Ocean}, the largest ocean.

   Syn: Pacific Ocean.
        [WordNet 1.5]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pacific \pa*cif"ic\, a. [L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See
   {Pacify}.]
   Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not
   warlike; not quarrelsome; as, a pacific nature or condition.
   [WordNet sense 3]

   Syn: peaceable.
        [1913 Webster]

   2. Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace;
      conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts. [WordNet sense 1]

   Syn: irenic.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   3. of or pertaining to the {Pacific Ocean}; as, Pacific
      islands.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   {Pacific Ocean}, the ocean between America and Asia, so
      called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on
      account of the exemption from violent tempests which he
      enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the
      {Pacific}, and, formerly, the {South sea}.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm;
        quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.
        [1913 Webster]
from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Pacific, MO (city, FIPS 55910)
  Location: 38.47833 N, 90.75292 W
  Population (1990): 4350 (1811 housing units)
  Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 63069
Pacific, WA (city, FIPS 52495)
  Location: 47.26575 N, 122.24672 W
  Population (1990): 4622 (1815 housing units)
  Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 98047
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Pacific, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
   Population (2000):    5482
   Housing Units (2000): 2343
   Land area (2000):     5.422474 sq. miles (14.044143 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.006320 sq. miles (0.016369 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    5.428794 sq. miles (14.060512 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            55910
   Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
   Location:             38.481503 N, 90.750015 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     63069
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Pacific, MO
    Pacific
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Pacific, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
   Population (2000):    5527
   Housing Units (2000): 2090
   Land area (2000):     2.560997 sq. miles (6.632952 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.001244 sq. miles (0.003222 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    2.562241 sq. miles (6.636174 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            52495
   Located within:       Washington (WA), FIPS 53
   Location:             47.263272 N, 122.247831 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     98047
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Pacific, WA
    Pacific
from U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Pacific -- U.S. County in Washington
   Population (2000):    20984
   Housing Units (2000): 13991
   Land area (2000):     932.971294 sq. miles (2416.384456 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    290.523943 sq. miles (752.453525 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1223.495237 sq. miles (3168.837981 sq. km)
   Located within:       Washington (WA), FIPS 53
   Location:             46.538320 N, 123.805494 W
   Headwords:
    Pacific
    Pacific, WA
    Pacific County
    Pacific County, WA
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacific":
      appeasing, at peace, at rest, bloodless, broken, calm, chastened,
      civilian, cloistered, conciliatory, concordant, cool, domesticated,
      dovelike, dovish, dwindling, ebbing, even-tenored, gentle, halcyon,
      housebroken, humble, hushed, idyllic, impassive, irenic, isolated,
      lamblike, meek, mild, moldering, mollifying, nonaggressive,
      noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, orderly, pacificatory,
      pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, pastoral, peace-loving, peaceable,
      peaceful, peacetime, piping, placative, placatory, placid,
      propitiative, propitiatory, quiescent, quiet, reconciliatory,
      reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, secluded, sequestered,
      sequestrated, serene, sheltered, smooth, soft, soothing, still,
      still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subdued,
      subsiding, tame, tamed, tranquil, unagitated, unbellicose,
      uncontentious, undisturbed, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary,
      unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning
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