Great War

English

Proper noun

the Great War

1. Epithet for World War I.
   • 1939 September, T. R. Perkins, “The G.W.R. in West Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 200:

     Then came the Great War, the Irish troubles, and the diversion of most of the American traffic to Southampton; the new construction was promptly dropped, and only grass-grown earthworks and cuttings now remain.

Synonyms

• the war to end all wars

Translations

epithet for World War I

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一戰／一战 (zh) (Yīzhàn)

• Finnish: suuri sota
• French: Grande Guerre (fr) f
• German: Großer Krieg m
• Polish: Wielka Wojna f
• Russian: Великая война (ru) (Velikaja vojna)
• Swedish: världskriget (sv) n
• Turkish: Büyük Harp