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 

• GREAT DEPRESSION (noun)

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)