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

He’d seen haunted eyes before, often in the gazes of veterans of the Great War, but this woman’s eyes were far beyond haunted: These eyes held a full-blown supernatural invasion within them.

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

The pair found delight at the sounds of jazz on city streets — just one influence of the Black soldiers who came to France for the Great War.

From Los Angeles Times

The destruction reminded Carmen of the pictures she’d seen in the newspapers of the battlefields of the Great War—the cities and forests of France and Belgium turned to charred ruins.

From Literature