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say it: GRAY-tur
greater is an adjective meaning "greater in size or importance or degree". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/ — GRAY-tur. It carries one recorded sense.
greater in size or importance or degree
“for the greater good of the community”
“the greater Antilles”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for greater come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.