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Great Wall of China   /greɪt wɔl əv tʃˈaɪnə/   Listen
Great Wall of China

noun
1.
A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width.  Synonyms: Chinese Wall, Great Wall.





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"Great Wall of China" Quotes from Famous Books



... appearance of all sorts of people, that she had no discriminations to apply to his case. There was no shyness and no surmise in her manner. She smiled at him as composedly as she had smiled over the Great Wall of China in Mrs. Forrester's drawing-room, and her pleasure in seeing him was neither less frank ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick


Words linked to "Great Wall of China" :   mainland China, People's Republic of China, china, PRC, wall, Communist China, rampart, Cathay, Red China, Great Wall, bulwark


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