Adjective

2. Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area; (of a city) metropolitan.
   • 1990, Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy, ISBN 0792390520, p. 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 Loan Practices Handbook, ISBN 0838906672, p. 98

     ... research libraries ... located in the greater Midwest.

   • 2004, Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide, ISBN 0313330417, p. 201

     The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.