| great circle |
a circle on a sphere that is in a plane passing through the center of the sphere. [2 definitions] |
| greatcoat |
a heavy overcoat. |
| Great Dane |
any of a breed of very large muscular short-haired dogs that have pointed ears and a square muzzle. |
| Great Depression |
the decade of the 1930s in the United States and other countries, characterized by extreme economic hardship; the Depression. |
| greater than |
in mathematics, being a quantity larger than the quantity that follows. |
| greater than or equal to |
in mathematics, being a quantity equal to or larger than the quantity that follows. |
| greater than or equal to sign |
in mathematics, a symbol (≥) indicting that the value before the sign is equal to or greater than the value after the sign. |
| greater than sign |
in mathematics, a symbol (>) indicting that the value before the sign is larger than the value after the sign. |
| great-grandchild |
a child of one's grandson or granddaughter. |
| great-grandfather |
the grandfather of a person's mother or father. |
| great-grandmother |
the grandmother of a person's mother or father. |
| great-grandparent |
a parent of one's grandmother or grandfather. |
| Great Green Wall |
a multinational African initiative to fight desertification and land degradation by modification of land use, water harvesting, and the planting and maintenance of trees primarily along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, a belt of land that stretches across the width of the continent. [2 definitions] |
| great gross |
a unit of quantity equal to twelve gross. |
| greathearted |
having a generous nature; magnanimous. [2 definitions] |
| great horned owl |
a large gray and brown North American owl that has two large earlike tufts of blackish feathers. |
| Great Lakes |
a group five large interconnected freshwater lakes on the border between the United States and Canada. The Great Lakes include Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. [2 definitions] |
| great laurel |
a large wild rhododendron of the eastern United States that has thick glossy dark green leaves and bears clusters of white or pink flowers. |
| greatly |
very much. [2 definitions] |
| Great Mogul |
the title of the emperor of the former Mongol empire that was established in India in 1526. [2 definitions] |
| Great Nebula |
the brightest and closest of nebulae, located in the constellation of Orion. |