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greater

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greater

  1. comparative form of great: more great
    • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[1], volume 189, number 7, page 32:
      The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.

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greater (not comparable)

  1. Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the larger in size (bigger), in value, in importance etc.
    Antonym: lesser
    Greater Antilles
    greater yellowlegs
  2. (usually capitalized) Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area pertaining to it; (of a city) metropolitan.
    Greater New York includes nearby parts of three states as well as the City itself.
    • 1990, Chikara Higashi, Geza Peter Lauter, The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy‎[2], →ISBN, page 285:
      […] statistics revealing that while greater Tokyo has a total area that represents only 3.6 percent of the total land available […] more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
    • 1997, Virginia Boucher, “Interlibrary Cooperation”, in Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 98, column 1:
      GMRLC is a regional consortium of medium-size research libraries (17 in 1995) located in the greater Midwest.
    • 2004, Janet Golden, Richard Alan Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide, →ISBN, page 201:
      The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.
    • 2013, Peter Newman, Anne Matan, “The Renewable Energy City”, in Green Urbanism in Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41:
      In February 2010, the largest high—concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar power plant in Asia began operation in Lujhu, located in the Greater Kaohsiung area.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:greater.

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greater — see great

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