greater

English

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: grā'tə(ɹ) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.tɚ/, [ˈɡɹeɪ.ɾɚ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Homophone: grater

Adjective

greater

1. comparative form of great: more great

   greater yellowlegs

   • 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.

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.

Synonyms

• out-

Antonyms

• lesser

Derived terms

• Greater Accra
• greater adjutant
• Greater Adria
• greater alar cartilage
• Greater Antilles
• greater argentine
• greater argonaut
• Greater Armenia
• greater bamboo lemur
• Greater Bendigo
• greater bilby
• greater black-backed gull
• Greater Britain
• Greater Caucasus
• greater celandine
• greater flamingo
• greater fool theory
• greater galago
• greater galangal
• Greater Geelong
• Greater German Reich
• greater good
• Greater Hebrides
• Greater Iran
• greater kudu
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Greater Middle East
• Greater Minnesota
• Greater Mongolia
• greater mouse-eared bat
• greater multangular
• Greater Napanee
• greater occipital nerve
• greater omentum
• greater palatine artery
• greater petrosal nerve
• greater plantain
• Greater Poland
• greater prairie chicken
• greater rhea
• greater roadrunner
• greater saphenous vein
• greater scaup
• Greater Shepparton
• greater short-toed lark
• greater spotted eagle
• Greater Sudbury
• Greater Syria
• greater than
• greater trochanter
• Greater United States
• Greater Upper Nile
• Greater Vancouver
• greater white-fronted goose
• greater whitethroat
• Greater Willington
• greater wing
• greater yam

 

Related terms

• greatest

Translations

greater — see great

area with surrounding region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大 (zh) (dà)

• Danish: Stor- (cities)
• German: Groß- (de)
• Hebrew: רבתי (rabati)
• Russian: большо́й (ru) (bolʹšój)
• Telugu: ఘనతర (ghanatara)

References

• “greater”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Traeger, Tregear, regrate