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Great War

noun

  1. another name for World War I
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Great War

  1. A common name for World War I before a second world war broke out. ( See World War II .)
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They’ve narrowly escaped family abuse and the German trenches of the Great War.

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“It’s a long story. Anyway, Snow White disappeared back at the end of the Great War, and no one’s heard from either her or the Wicked Queen since.”

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By the time the exhausted combatants finally laid down their arms, the Great War was also known as the War to End All Wars.

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It’s a question that the residents of Vault 4 — a subterranean bunker safe beneath the surface of California, still teeming with nuclear radiation 219 years after the Great War of 2077 — had obviously considered.

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The pair found delight at the sounds of jazz on city streets — just one influence of the Black soldiers who came to France for the Great War.

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