great power
- n a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
great proletarian cultural revolution
- n a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
great pyramid
- n a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
great pyrenees
- n bred of large heavy-coated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland
great ragweed
- n a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
great revolt
- n a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II
great rift valley
- n ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
great russian
- n a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia
great sandy desert
- n a desert in southern Saudi Arabia
- n a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
great saphenous vein
- n the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein
great schism
- n the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon