more
see also: More
Pronunciation
More
Proper noun
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see also: More
Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: mô, IPA: /ˈmɔː/
- (America) enPR: môr, IPA: /ˈmɔɹ/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: mōr, IPA: /ˈmo(ː)ɹ/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈmoə/
- (nonrhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA: /ˈmoʊ/
- comparative degree of many#English|many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- More people are arriving.
- There are more ways to do this than I can count.
comparative degree of much#English|much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) - I want more soup.
- I need more time.
- There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
- Additional; further.
- If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
- 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.
more (not comparable)
- To a greater degree or extent. [from 10thc.]
- I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.] - You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
- (now, poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10thc.]
- a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XV, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗:
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.
- (now, dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. [from 13thc.; standard until 18thc.]
- I was more better at English than you.
- 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.
more (plural mores)
Verbmore (mores, present participle moring; past and past participle mored)
- (transitive) To root up.
More
Proper noun
- The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
- Russian: мооре
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