Great War

British  

noun

1. another name for World War I

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Great War Cultural  

1. A common name for World War I before a second world war broke out. (See World War II.)

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Example Sentences

And seven decades earlier, Hearts missed out on the 1915 championship, because 13 of its players abruptly left the team: They had enlisted in the Royal Scots battalion to go fight in the Great War.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The idea that the Great War had been the war to end all wars had fallen apart in the late 1930s, with the outbreak of World War Two.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

When the news of her split with Joe Alwyn burst into public frenzy, she played "The Great War" and "You're on Your Own, Kid."

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

By 1918, the Great War was over, but the country stayed on a war footing internally.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

Two months earlier, the long, tragic Great War ended and hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were at last coming home from the battlefields of Europe.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler