greater

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

adj

1. comparative form of great: more great
   greater yellowlegs
   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. 2013-07-26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
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.
   […]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. 1990, Chikara Higashi, Geza Peter Lauter, The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy, page 285
   GMRLC is a regional consortium of medium-size research libraries (17 in 1995) located in the greater Midwest. 1997, Virginia Boucher, “Interlibrary Cooperation”, in Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 2nd edition, page 98, column 1
   The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties. 2004, Janet Golden, Richard Alan Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide, page 201
   In February 2010, the largest high—concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar power plant in Asia began operation in Lujhu, located in the Greater Kaohsiung area. 2013, Peter Newman, Anne Matan, “The Renewable Energy City”, in Green Urbanism in Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41