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GFW

GFW is the initialism of Great Firewall of China.

Meaning of Great Firewall of China

Proper noun

the Great Firewall of China

  1. (derogatory) Internet censorship by the government of the People's Republic of China.
    • Behind this hypothetical Great Firewall of China, most users would be allowed to exchange information with foreign sites if they were on the approved list1997, A. Michael Froomkin, “Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The Role of Intermediaries”, in Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure, →OCLC, page 146

Questions about GFW

What is GFW the initialism of?
GFW is the initialism of Great Firewall of China.

Words near GFW in the dictionary

  1. GFRPs
  2. GFRs
  3. gfs
  4. GFT
  5. GFU
  6. GFW
  7. gfx
  8. GFY
  9. GFYS
  10. gg
  11. GG no re

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GFW (page history and authors); Great Firewall of China (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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