Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun great_depression

2 senses of great depression

Sense 1
Great Depression -- (the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s)
       INSTANCE OF=> depression, slump, economic crisis -- (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)

Sense 2
Depression, Great Depression -- (a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment)
       INSTANCE OF=> historic period, age -- (an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age")