It's the word of the day for November 11th.
Today's word is armistice, spelled A-R-M-I-S-T-I-C-E.
Armistice is a noun, and armistice is an agreement to stop fighting a war,
or in other words, a truce.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Deadline by Damon Wise.
The year is 1918, and the armistice is just around the corner,
but no one on the front line can possibly know that yet.
Armistice comes from the new Latin word armistitium,
which in turn combines a stem of the Latin verb sistere,
meaning to make, stand, halt, bring to a standstill,
with arma, meaning implements of war or weapons.
An armistice, therefore, is literally a cessation of arms.
Armistice Day is the name that was given to the holiday celebrated in the United States on November 11th,
before it was renamed Veterans Day by Congress in 1954.
The original name refers to the agreement between the Allied powers and Germany to end the hostilities that constituted the First World War,
an agreement designated to take effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.