Definition of Great Pyrenees

1. Noun. Bred of large heavy-coated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland.

Generic synonyms: Canis Familiaris, Dog, Domestic Dog

Definition of Great Pyrenees

1. Noun. (US) A large breed of dog originating in France and often used to guard livestock. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Pyrenees

Great Lakes
Great Lakes State
Great Leap Forward
Great Lent
Great Mendenhall Glacier
Great Mother
Great Nebula in Andromeda
Great North Road
Great Plains
Great Plains of North America
Great Pox
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees (current term)
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt
Great Rift Valley
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert
Great Satan
Great Seal
Great Seal of the United States
Great Sky River
Great Slave Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Literary usage of Great Pyrenees

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits by Stewart Rose (1891)
"Standing apart, detached from the great Pyrenees chain, to which it might have been thought of right to belong, its elevation and isolated position would ..."

2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"In the dog characteristic inclusions have been recorded in the submaxillary salivary glands of a Great Pyrenees pup (Haberman, Williams and Fite, ..."

3. Royal Spain of Today by Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (1913)
"From Alsasua, which is prettily situated in a val we could see the peaks of the Sierra de Aralar, the Sierra de Andía and even the great Pyrenees. ..."

4. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France by Elise Whitlock Rose (1906)
"Crossing the bridge he climbed the little hill of the Castelas, and from the park at the summit he looked over the plain toward the great Pyrenees, ..."

5. Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.) by Henry William Herbert, Thomas Picton (1882)
"... the lower steps of the great Pyrenees, extended now in one vast, continuous range, farther than the eye could reach on the opposite side likewise, ..."

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