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GREAT DEPRESSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Depression mean?
• GREAT DEPRESSION (noun)
The noun GREAT DEPRESSION has 2 senses:
1. the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
2. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
Familiarity information: GREAT DEPRESSION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Instance hypernyms:
depression; economic crisis; slump (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Depression; Great Depression
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Context examples
No sooner, however, was he inside than a great depression descended upon him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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