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L333586 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- extra or additional
- greater in amount, number, or size
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)/ / /mɔɹ/ / /mo(ː)ɹ/ / /ˈmɔɹ/ / /ˈmɔː/ / /ˈmo(ː)ɹ/ / /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
“Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.”
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
adv
Etymology: From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).
- To a greater degree or extent.
“I like cake, but I like chocolate more.”
“I could no more climb that than fly!”
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
“You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.”
“I am much more eager to help than you.”
- In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
“Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.”
- Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
“I was more better at English than you.”
det
Etymology: From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
“There are more ways to do this than I can count.”
“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
“There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.”
“Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.”
- Additional; further.
“If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.”
“More people are arriving.”
- Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
“He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.”
name
Etymology: * As a Scottish and English surname, variant of Moore. * As a French surname, from Old French more (“Moor”), respelled from Latin Maurus. Compare Mauro. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mór (“big”). * As an Indian (Maharashtra) surname, from Marathi मोर (mor, “peacock”), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).
noun
Etymology: Back-formation from mores.
- singular of mores
“In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.”
“A value is a social more or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.”
pron
Etymology: From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).
- A greater number or quantity (of something).
“We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.”
“There isn’t enough salt in this. You need to add more.”
- An extra or additional quantity (of something).
“There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.”
“Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.
- To root up.