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

As Mr. Hart points out, this “mechanical slaughter” anticipated others during World War I. Men who were ambitious young officers during the Sudan operations subsequently reached high command during the “Great War.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

He and his siblings grew up knowing all about the part one of their relatives played in the Great War.

From BBC

Dix’s art was deemed an “insult to the German heroes of the Great War.”

From Salon

“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.”

From Literature