GREAT WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Wall mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT WALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Chinese Wall; Great Wall; Great Wall of China

Instance hypernyms:

bulwark; rampart; wall (an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes)

Holonyms ("Great Wall" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

 Context examples 

Yet it was afternoon before they came to the great wall that surrounded the City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Given its size so early in the history of the Universe, Hyperion is expected to evolve into something similar to the immense structures in the local Universe such as the superclusters making up the Sloan Great Wall or the Virgo Supercluster that contains our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

(Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found, ESO)

These practices, especially in the form of Traditional Chinese Medicine have a prominent position in the U.S. Included are: Acupuncture, Herbal formulas, Diet, QiGong, Tai chi, Massage, manipulation, Acupotomy - Fibrosis, Fibromylogic electroacupuncture used in China at Great Wall Hospital.

(Oriental medicine, NCI Thesaurus)