tranquility

IPA: træŋkwˈɪɫɪti

Root Word: Tranquility

noun

  • An unincorporated community in Green, Sussex, New Jersey, United States
  • An unincorporated community in Adams, Ohio, United States
  • US standard spelling of tranquillity. [The state of being tranquil; peacefulness, the absence of disturbance or stress; serenity; calm.]
  • Ellipsis of Sea of Tranquility. [(planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.]
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Examples of "tranquility" in Sentences

  • That it shall be protected in tranquility and peace, ver.
  • I think a certain tranquility settled in on him in the last four or five years of his life.
  • And the big danger there, and one of the dangers we face, is, for the cause of short-term tranquility, we empowered the militias; we allowed them to really fill the vacuum.
  • Freed of the exhausting consequences of their hopeless race against writers, they found their health returning, along with a certain tranquility and a more poised way of living.
  • Palestinian chatter in the media and society is already predicting that the truce will not result in long term tranquility, but rather an even more brutal and fierce military confrontation.
  • When I point to the “quietude” of the lyric, however, I am referring, of course, to the Wordsworthian notion of “emotion recollected in tranquility,” free from the rhapsodic, irrational character of the “spontaneous outburst of feeling.”
  • Even without such 'colour', the docks announce their presence at 08.00 every morning when the pre-work tranquility is broken by the sonourous moan of the dock siren - announcing the start of the work day like a minaret gathering the faithful.
  • Parents who take their children to restaurants have an obligation to themselves and the rest of the public to teach their kids to behave as if they are in a special place, and if the children are too young to appreciate the situation, they should take the child outside until peace and tranquility is restored.

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