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Definition of Great Wall of China

1. Noun. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width.

Definition of Great Wall of China

1. Proper noun. An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Great Wall of China

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

1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"... completed the Great Wall of China (portions of which had been already built by two provincial sovereigns) in order to protect the northern frontier from ..."

2. Letters from China: With Particular Reference to the Empress Dowager and the by Sarah Pike Conger (1909)
"After a good breakfast we were off for the Great Wall of China, fourteen miles away. We left the carts at Nan- kou until our return. ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Although it was built three hundred years before the birth of Christ, it still exists, and during fourteen THE Great Wall of China, centuries sufficed to ..."

4. The Life and Travels of General Grant by Joel Tyler Headley (1879)
"GRANT DETERMINES TO VISIT THE Great Wall of China—VARIOUS PLANS OF GOING —RESOLVES ... GENERAL GRANT had planned a trip to the Great Wall of China while in ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1871)
"NOTICE OF A RECENT VISIT TO THE Great Wall of China. BY .1. G. SINCLAIR COGHILL, MD, FSA SCOT. The two greatest national works ever undertaken in any ..."

6. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER LVI The fathers at dinner—The dormitory—Trappists' dress—My bedroom—The Great Wall of China—Towers—On Trinity day —Man and speech—A sad story. ..."

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