WordNet
the Depression
n. a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: Depression, the Great Depression]
Usage examples of "the depression".
Has it been possible to observe brain changes while the depression is developing?
A metal plate lay nearby, apparently designed to fit the depression.
On the far side of the depression lay the churned earth of the Sarronnese defenses, now blanketed in heavy gray ash.
Following the crash of 2134 the world plunged into the depression known as the Great Chaos and virtually all space exploration was stopped.