"great divide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, Victor Bonham-Carter, Land and Environment: The Survival of the English Countryside, Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 72:",
          "text": "The First World War was \"the great divide\", not only because it accelerated changes already evident in the countryside, but because it introduced Government controls on a scale never known before.",
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          "ref": "2005, J. C. Burke, The Story of Tom Brennan, Sydney: Random House Australia, page 195:",
          "text": "There was nothing more I wanted than to be hanging out with Fin as if nothing had changed, but that wasn't reality. It was now the great divide.",
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        "A significant or profound separation, contrast, difference, or gap between two things."
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        "(preceded by the definite article) A significant or profound separation, contrast, difference, or gap between two things."
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