GREAT SEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great seal mean? 

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

1. the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT SEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

seal; stamp (a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents)

Instance hyponyms:

Great Seal of the United States (the seal of the United States government)

 Context examples 

We ran on to the north and west till we raised the coast of Japan and picked up with the great seal herd.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our dominions, without our license under our great seal.

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