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pax¹

  • /pæks/

Sounds like packs · Rhymes with -æks

Where it comes from

From Middle English pax and Latin pax (“peace”). Doublet of peace. See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire, in the United Kingdom.

noun

  1. A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory. Fortune is Bardolphs foe, and frownes on him: for he hath ſtolne a Pax, and hanged muſt a be: […] Exeter hath giuen the doome of death, for Pax of little price.
  2. UK, dated Friendship; truce. to make pax with someone
  3. The kiss of peace.
  4. A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
  5. Any of several notable periods of peace in human history, particularly owing to unquestionable hegemony on the model of the Pax Romana.

interjection

  1. UK, dated A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

    Similar: fainites, barlafumble

pax²

  • /pæks/

Sounds like packs · Rhymes with -æks

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of passenger; -x is an abbreviation marker as in DX, TX, Dx, Rx, etc.

noun pax

  1. informal, plural normally A passenger; passengers. Had a pax think they were having an asthma attack so I called MedLink but once they answered the pax said they were doing better IDK man I just wanna fly airplanes
  2. broadly, informal, plural normally A guest (at an event or function).
  3. broadly, informal, plural normally Person (a restaurant guest, when counting). $30 per pax

Pax³

Where it comes from

From Latin Pāx (“Peace”).

proper noun

  1. Roman The goddess and personification of peace; one of the Horae, she is a daughter of Jupiter and Themis, and her sisters are Justitia (Justice) and Disciplina / Eunomia (Order of Law); her Greek counterpart is Eirene.
  2. A female given name from Latin.
  3. A surname from German.

PAX⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of private automatic exchange

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: catholic, bucks, patten, paten, pome, pignus amoris, purificator, patena, pouncet-box, paci, padelle, piaculum, pictel, pyxis, paternoster, pent

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intj cry for truce in games

Françaispouce

noun passenger; passengers

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"pax." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pax. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pax. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pax

Chicago

"pax." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pax.

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@misc{pax_2026,
  title = {pax},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pax},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}