watch
vigil | a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe |
Peasant's Revolt
Great Revolt | a widespread rebellion in against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England, suppressed by Richard II |
| vigil watch | the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) |
| great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | 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 to |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
blue shark
great blue shark
Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
great bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis | large bowerbird of northern Australia |
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus | brown North American horned owl |
great grey owl
great gray owl
Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
great blue heron
Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
great bustard
Otis tarda | largest European land bird |
great snipe
woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
great skua
Catharacta skua | large brown skua of the northern Atlantic |
great auk
Pinguinus impennis | large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts, extinct |
great crested grebe
Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
| Great Dane | very large powerful smoothoated breed of dog |
| Great Pyrenees | bred of large heavyoated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland |
| Easter bunny | a rabbit that delivers Easter eggs |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
great ape
pongid | any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae |
great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda | large (up to ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish, may be dangerous to swimmers |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
| great hall | the principal hall in a castle or mansion, can be used for dining or entertainment |
| great seal | the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty |
| Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
Pyramid
Great Pyramid
Pyramids of Egypt | a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides, begun by Cheops around BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt |
vigil light
vigil candle | a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church |
musculus adductor magnus
great adductor muscle | the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh |
great cerebral vein
vena cerebri magna | a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus |
long saphenous vein
great saphenous vein | the longest vein in the body, runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein |
big toe
great toe
hallux | the first largest innermost toe |
| vigil | a period of sleeplessness |
Magna Carta
Magna Charta
The Great Charter | the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in |
| Easter card | a card expressing an Easter greeting |
Agnus Dei
Paschal Lamb | figure of a lamb, emblematic of Christ |
the Irish Famine
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the Great Calamity | a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight, between and a million people starved to death and . million emigrated (most to America) |
Cultural Revolution
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 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 |
pascal celery
Paschal celery | any of several types of commercially grown celery having green stalks |
| Easter egg | a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter |
| Easter egg | an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |
world power
major power
great power
power
superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
multitude masses
mass hoi polloi
people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |
| great circle | a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center |