GREAT POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great power mean? 

• GREAT POWER (noun)
  The noun GREAT POWER has 1 sense:

1. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

  Familiarity information: GREAT POWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT POWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

great power; major power; power; superpower; world power

Hypernyms ("great power" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "great power"):

hegemon (a leading or paramount power)

 Context examples 

This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But Charles has great power and influence in London.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least pleasure in the great power of choice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He was a person of great power in my eyes; that was, of course, the reason of my mind running on him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her own views of every question, and her correction of everything that was said to which she was opposed, Miss Dartle insinuated in the same way: sometimes, I could not conceal from myself, with great power, though in contradiction even of Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)