great depression

Noun great depression has 2 senses

• great depression(n = noun.state) - the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s;
is a kind of depression, economic crisis, slump

• great depression(n = noun.time) depression - a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment;
is a kind of age, historic period