Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - compared

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you say, for example, that one thing is large or small compared with another or compared to another, you mean that it is larger or smaller than the other thing. The room was light and lofty compared with our Tudor ones... Columbia was a young city compared to venerable Charleston. PREP-PHRASE 2. You talk about one situation or thing compared with another or compared to another when contrasting the two situations or things. In 1800 Ireland’s population was nine million, compared to Britain’s 16 million. PREP-PHRASE