Greater

[ grey-ter ]

/ ˈgreɪ tər /

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adjective

designating a city or country and its adjacent area: Greater New York; Greater Los Angeles.

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Origin of Greater

First recorded in 1570–80; great + -er⁴

Words nearby Greater

Great Dividing Range, Great Dog, great doxology, greaten, Great Entrance, Greater, Greater Antilles, greater celandine, Greater Dionysia, greater Ionic, Greater London

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How to use Greater in a sentence

The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
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And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Duke kept running for offices and losing by ever-greater margins.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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Veterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the greater whole.
A Veteran’s View: NYC Cold War Between Cops and City Hall|Matt Gallagher|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

British Dictionary definitions for Greater

Greater

/ (ˈɡreɪtə) /

adjective

(of a city) considered with the inclusion of the outer suburbsGreater London

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