The phrase "a great tower" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a tall and impressive structure, often in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The city skyline was dominated by a great tower that reached high into the clouds."
Alternatives: "an impressive tower" or "a magnificent tower."
"I want to build you a great tower, Governor," Mr. Childs was said to have told Mr. Pataki during their meeting in the governor's office, at 633 Third Avenue.
At the shipyard in Saint Nazaire the superstructure sticks out like a sore thumb, a great tower surrounded by cranes and lifting devices that signal to the town that the helicopter carrier is moored here, in the oily waters of the naval dockyard.
The narrative is interspersed with observations about the response of President Bush to the attack -- "He would like to have passed for the Messiah" -- and ruminations about a consumer society that creates what Mr. Goupil calls a "Great Tower of Gold" in its image.
A keep was a great tower and usually the most strongly defended point of a castle before the introduction of concentric defence.
In Latin, they are variously described as turris, turris castri or magna turris – a tower, a castle tower, or a great tower.
During the civil war of the 12th century the castle changed hands several times between the de Lacy's and rival claimants, and was further fortified with a Great Tower and a large outer bailey.
The stone keep, dating from the 1220s or 1230s, was constructed in the form of a circular great tower, with walls 5 m thick and three turrets spaced evenly around the outside and a hall on the first floor.
And New York now has a modestly improved street plan, one great tower, a few OK ones, an acceptable museum, an unworthy memorial, a scandalous transit hub and, sooner or later, a lot of new places to shop.
Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century.
We do not want or need another hundred-and-ten-story skyscraper, but we could repair the broken skyline with some kind of great tower, perhaps a broadcast tower or an observation tower — a twenty-first-century Eiffel Tower for New York, which would use the technology of our time as aggressively and inventively as Eiffel used the technology of the nineteenth century.
At its most obvious, the Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department added a hundred sixty-three pages to the great tower of foregone conclusions.
