city planning town planning urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
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 |
great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
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 |
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 |
city hall | a building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government |
city university | an urban university in a large city |
disk drive disc drive hard drive Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
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 |
Winchester | a shoulder rifle |
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 |
Celestial City City of God Heavenly City Holy City | phrases used to refer to Heaven, the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress' |
Magna Carta Magna Charta The Great Charter | the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in |
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 |
New England clam chowder | a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk |
boiled dinner New England boiled dinner | corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables |
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 |
the City | used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain |
Anglican Church Anglican Communion Church of England | the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs), has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head |
city desk city room | the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news |
world power major power great power power superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |