Greater vs Highest - What's the difference?
greater | highest |
(great)
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, title= 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
*:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
* 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98
*: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
As adjectives the difference between greater and highest
is that greater is (great) while highest is (high).As an adverb highest is
.greater
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- The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.