greaterとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: grā'tə(ɹ)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
  • 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: grater

形容詞

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 China includes many areas north of the Great Wall.

   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.

反意語

• lesser

派生語

関連する語

• greatest