Great War

noun

1. another name for World War I

Great War

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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

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

From Literature

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.

From Salon