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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: grā'tə(ɹ) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.tɚ/, [ˈɡɹeɪ.ɾɚ]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
- Homophone: grater
Adjective
[edit]greater
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]greater (not comparable)
- Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the larger in size (bigger), in value, in importance etc.
- Antonym: lesser
- Greater Antilles
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]- Greater Accra
- greater adjutant
- Greater Adria
- greater alar cartilage
- Greater Antilles
- greater argentine
- greater argonaut
- Greater Armenia
- greater bamboo lemur
- Greater Bendigo
- greater big-footed mouse
- greater bilby
- greater black-backed gull
- Greater Britain
- Greater Caucasus
- greater celandine
- greater crested tern
- greater flamingo
- greater fool theory
- greater galago
- greater galangal
- Greater Geelong
- Greater Geraldton
- Greater German Reich
- greater glider
- 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 one-horned rhinoceros
- greater palatine artery
- greater petrosal nerve
- greater plantain
- Greater Poland
- greater prairie chicken
- greater rhea
- greater roadrunner
- greater sandplover
- 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
- northern greater galago
- to a greater extent
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]greater — see great
of two things, the larger in size, value, importance etc
area with surrounding region
References
[edit]- “greater”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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