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Definition of Great wall

1. Noun. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width.

Definition of Great wall

1. Proper noun. Shortened form of the Great Wall of China. ¹

2. Proper noun. (astronomy) Either of two identified areas containing hundreds of galaxy galaxies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Great wall

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"... completed the great wall of China (portions of which had been already built by two provincial sovereigns) in order to protect the northern frontier from ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"THE great wall AND THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS From the Times Literary Supplement, May 4 PRESS) A HUNDRED years ago ..."

3. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"Turkish forces south of the great wall. On 20 October, however, the Venetians were badly defeated, and Bertoldo d'Esté was mortally wounded, hit in the head ..."

4. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1886)
"It is interesting to know that the name China (unknown by the inhabitants of the country) comes from the house from which the builder of the great wall was ..."

5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Although it was built three hundred years before the birth of Christ, it still exists, and during fourteen THE great wall OF CHINA, centuries sufficed to ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... perhaps their original, seat was an extensive, though dry and barren, tract of country, immediately on the north side of the great wall. ..."

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