Great War

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.

• the war to end all wars