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greater

  1. comparative form ofgreat: moregreat
    • 2013 July 26,Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, inThe Guardian Weekly[1], volume189, number 7,page32:
      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 offersgreater species diversity.

Adjective

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greater (notcomparable)

  1. Oftwo (or, rarely, more than two)things: thelarger insize (bigger), invalue, inimportance etc.
    Antonym:lesser
  2. (attributive)In the names ofplaces or geographic features:
    1. The larger geographic oradministrative area thatencompasses or belongs to a place (especially if both share the same name).
      Greater Antilles
      • 1997, Virginia Boucher, “Interlibrary Cooperation”, inInterlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 2nd edition,→ISBN, page98, column 1:
        GMRLC is a regional consortium of medium-size research libraries (17 in 1995) located in thegreater Midwest.
    2. (usually capitalized) Including the surrounding urban areas andconurbation (of a city or other large settlement).
      Greater London
      Greater New York includes adjacent parts of three states, as well as the City itself.
      • 1883,Edward Walford,Greater London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places[2], volume 1, London: Cassell & Company, page 1:
        Greater London!” What a vague and ill-defined term! We all known London proper, comprising of the City and Westminster, and making up one metropolis.
      • 1990, Chikara Higashi, Geza Peter Lauter,The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy[3],→ISBN, page285:
        []statistics revealing that whilegreater 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.
      • 2004, Janet Golden, Richard Alan Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott,Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide,→ISBN, page201:
        The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in thegreater metropolitan counties.
      • 2013,Peter Newman, Anne Matan, “The Renewable Energy City”, inGreen Urbanism in Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page41:
        In February 2010, the largest high—concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar power plant in Asia began operation in Lujhu, located in theGreater Kaohsiung area.
      • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:greater.
    3. Referring to a state at its fullest historical (or desired future) extent includingcolonies,annexed land, etc.
      Greater Armenia

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greaterseegreat
of two things, the larger in size, value, importance etc
area with surrounding region

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