1. An agreement between opponents or enemies to stop arguing or fighting, and to have a cease-fire or suspension of hostilities for a period of time: The violence between the protestors and the police was so vicious that the President of the country declared a truce in an effort to find a solution to the conflicts.

There has been an uneasy truce between Beth and her parents for the last several months about her marriage to a foreign worker.

Someone has said that a truce is when shouting or yelling replaces shooting.

2. Etymology: from Middle English trewes, trues (plural) of trewe, "a pledge, a treaty"; from Old English treow, "truth, faith, trust"; of German origin and related to Dutch trouw, German Treue, and English true.