noun:

• the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jochi-ji, Jomyo-ji) ➜ 京都五山

noun:

• three great people (e.g. of the Meiji Restoration) ➜ 維新の三傑

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

noun:

• (the) two great powers

noun:

• great popularity; sensation; good reputation

noun:

• influence of great virtue; influence of ancestors

noun:

• great principle ➜ 原則

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking great pains - four character idiom

noun:

• great frigatebird (Fregata minor)

noun:

• great compassion and mercy - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• great victory; big win; huge profit; killing ➜ 大勝【たいしょう】

noun / ~する noun:

• great difference

noun:

• great difference

expression:

• precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 壁立・千仞

noun:

• great adventure

noun:

• (having, there being) a great number of books - four character idiom

expression:

• great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom ➜ 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い

noun:

• great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• of great renown; highly illustrious; at the zenith of one's fame - four character idiom

noun:

• Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960)

noun / ~する noun:

• significant breakthrough; great strides

noun:

• great love; passionate affair

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• Great Hanshin Earthquake (Jan 1995)