great satan
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The United States of America, particularly with regard to its perceived imperialist foreign policy.
Derogatory
name
Alternative letter-case form of Great Satan.
Example Sentences
Etymology
Calque of Iranian Persian شَیطانِ بُزُرْگ (šeytân-e bozorg), which is more often the name of the largest of the three jamarat at which stones are thrown during the hajj. The derogatory sense was coined by Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, one day after the onset of the Iran hostage crisis.
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Great Satan (canonical)