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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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Primarily because the way most of us in the west and Anglophile world view the history of the Great War is from the winning side.

Why was he so inspired by the Great War—and a group of school friends?

The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War, to be published July 1, is her first standalone novel.

The chance of becoming a mother had died when she lost her sweetheart in the Great War.

In Europe, of course, memories of the Great War are evergreen.

Very likely the next great war will have begun before we realize that the three days' delay in the fall of Antwerp saved Calais.

On that very road a battalion of Uhlans had been annihilated almost to a man at the outbreak of the Great War.

The early days of the great war saw Sara Lee playing her part in the setting of a city in Pennsylvania.

A great war cannot be waged on one continent but many of its bad effects are felt upon the others.

The great war in Europe with Napoleon was over and England had plenty of ships and men to spare.

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