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adjective 
  1. (comparative of, great, lang=English, POS=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 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 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 metropolitan counties.
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