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THE GREAT POWERS

Definition: THE GREAT POWERS

THE GREAT POWERS

1. (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: THE GREAT POWERS

English words defined with "THE GREAT POWERS": AssientoGeneva conventionReligious libertyU.S.A.Wheel and axle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "THE GREAT POWERS": GOOSENAPOLEON. (references)

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Commercial Usage: THE GREAT POWERS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Empires in Conflict: Armenia and the Great Powers, 1895-1920 (International Library of Historical Studies, 2) (reference)

  • The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (reference)

  • Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies in Contemporary Spain) (reference)

  • Hungary, the Great Powers, and the Danubian Crisis, 1936-1939 (reference)

  • United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918-1941: The Golden Age of American Diplomatic and Military Complacency (Praeger Studies of Foreign Policies of the Great Powers) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: THE GREAT POWERS

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Greece

A Bavarian prince, Otto, was named king in 1833. He was deposed 30 years later, and the Great Powers chose a prince of the Danish House of Glucksberg as his successor. (references)

Serbia and Montenegro

The uprising became a war between Serbia and the Montenegrins that lasted until 1926. Many Montenegrins lost their lives, and though many hoped for an intervention by the Great Powers to protect their sovereignty, none came and Montenegro was effectively absorbed into the new kingdom of Yugoslavia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: THE GREAT POWERS

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Richard Nixon

1969-1974We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: THE GREAT POWERS

Language Translations for "THE GREAT POWERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtetet e fuqishme, fuqitë e mëdha. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏القوى العظمى (powers, superpower). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

великите сили. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mocnosti. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyhatalmak. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ny hashoonyn mooarey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethay eatgray owerspay

   

Romanian

  

marile puteri. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

великие державы. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

velike sile (power: the great powers). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

las grandes potencias. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THE GREAT POWERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-h-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-w"

-2 letters: theatergoers.

-3 letters: stereograph, theatergoer.

-4 letters: porterages, preheaters, prestorage, pretheater, reoperates, reportages, sweetheart, tetraspore.

-5 letters: ephorates, garotters, garrottes, gatherers, grapeshot, heartsore, operettas, patterers, perorates, pewterers, poetaster, porterage, potterers, preheater, pretreats, prostrate, protegees, protester, regathers, regrowths, reheaters, reoperate, repartees, repeaters, reportage, rerepeats, retargets, rosewater, spearwort, threapers, throwster, thwarters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: THE GREAT POWERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 48 45      47 52 45 41 54      50 4F 57 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000111 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#87 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0045      0047 0052 0045 0041 0054      0050 004F 0057 0045 0052 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544239241523935542504957395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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