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

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

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They’ve narrowly escaped family abuse and the German trenches of the Great War.

“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.”

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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