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Great Bear

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Great Bear
n.
See Ursa Major.
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Noun1.Great BearGreat Bear - a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star
Ursa Major
Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wain, Wagon, Dipper - a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
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Over his head Levin made out the stars of the Great Bear and lost them again.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
He looked to the south and knew that somewhere beyond those bleak hills lay the Great Bear Lake; also, he knew that in that direction the Arctic Circle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens.
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