NOUN
- a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
How To Use Great War In A Sentence
- Hammurabi Babylonian king 1792–1750 B.C., great warrior and codifier of law, conquered Mari. The Trojan War
- The 100 back seemed to serve as a great warm-up for her main event of the evening.
- the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War
- Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
- The Great War was something that happened to real people and had ineradicable effects on their families and the nations to which they belonged.
- His father was a merchant seaman and killed during the Great War. STUART: A Life Backwards
- At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
- Charles Hamilton Sorley, a Great War poet, once wrote an achingly poignant poem about the ‘millions of mouthless dead’ whose individual identity had been smothered by their ubiquity.
- And there he pight many pavilions, and there was great war made on both parties, and much people slain. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- One of them depicts a winged victory and on the obverse side are engraved the words: ‘The Great War for Civilisation’.
