GREATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greater mean? 

• GREATER (adjective)
  The adjective GREATER has 1 sense:

1. greater in size or importance or degree

  Familiarity information: GREATER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREATER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greater in size or importance or degree

Context example:

the greater Antilles

Antonym:

lesser (of less size or importance)

 Context examples 

This was repeated several times, with greater effort and with shorter pauses as the time moved on.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Several times he stopped and drew in the fresh morning air in great sniffs, reading a message which made him leap on with greater speed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If the house, and every one of us, had tumbled out into the river together, I could hardly have received a greater shock.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have since determined that a part of it was due to the man’s personality, but that the greater part was due to his totally different outlook.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“The higher the steed the greater the fall. Hawk not at that which may be beyond thy flight.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You would do me a greater still if you could lay your hands on the murderer of John Straker.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had never looked in eyes that expressed greater power.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The man knew there was no nourishment in the berries, but he chewed them patiently with a hope greater than knowledge and defying experience.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The attitude of the greater part of the public might be described as one of attentive neutrality.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)