Great War

Speech parts

1. Great War - Noun

2. Great War - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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Examples

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. Abraham Lincoln

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. Chuck Jones

It is not too much to say that when the Great War broke out our Generals had the most important lessons of their art to learn. Before they began they had much to unlearn. Their brains were cluttered with useless lumber, packed in every niche and corner. David Lloyd George

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. Ulysses S. Grant

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. Chuck Palahniuk

England is, I believe, the only country in which during a great war eminent men write and speak publicly as if they belonged to the enemy. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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