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PronunciationEdit

• (UK) enPR: mô, IPA^(key): /mɔː(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: môr, IPA^(key): /mɔɹ/, /moʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore, maw (some dialects only)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), 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”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).

DeterminerEdit

more

1. Comparative form of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   More people are arriving.

   There are more ways to do this than I can count.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, The Economist, volume 411, number 8891: 

     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.

2. ​ Comparative form of 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.

   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3: 

     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.

TranslationsEdit

AdverbEdit

more (not comparable)

1. To a greater degree or extent. [from 10^thc.]

   He walks more in the morning these days.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34: 

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Bk.XV, Ch.II:

     Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

3. ​ Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13^thc.]

   You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, The Celebrity:

     Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 4: 

     Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

4. (now dialectal or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18^thc.) [from 13^thc.]

   I was more better at English than you.

Derived termsEdit

• more or less
• more so
• less is more

TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

• most

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English more, moore (“carrot, parsnip”) from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”). Akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German morha, moraha (“root of a plant or tree”) (German Möhre (“carrot”), Morchel (“mushroom, morel”)). More at morel.

NounEdit

more (plural mores)

1. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
2. (dialectal) a root; stock.
3. A plant.

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

VerbEdit

more (third-person singular simple present mores, present participle moring, simple past and past participle mored)

1. (transitive) To root up.

StatisticsEdit

• Most common English words before 1923: when · if · there · #53: more · out · into · up

AnagramsEdit

• omer
• Rome

NounEdit

more

1. purple

See alsoEdit

• (basic colors) kolore; beltz, urdin, marroi, gris, berde, laranja, arrosa, more, gorri, zuri, hori ^{(Category: eu:Colors)}

EtymologyEdit

Derived from moro (“fun”), which may be a compound of mod, from Old Norse móðr (“mind”) and ro, from Old Norse ró (“rest”).

VerbEdit

more (imperative mor, infinitive at more, present tense morer, past tense morede, past participle har moret)

1. To amuse, entertain

Derived termsEdit

• morskab c
• morsom
• morsomhed c

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mora.

NounEdit

more m, f (plural moren, diminutive moretje n)

1. The unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre

AnagramsEdit

• moer, roem, Rome

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: maure, maures, mores

NounEdit

more f (plural mores)

1. (phonology) mora

AdjectiveEdit

more (masculine and feminine, plural mores)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

Related termsEdit

• More m

AnagramsEdit

• orme
• Rome

External linksEdit

• “more” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

NounEdit

more f

1. plural form of mora

VerbEdit

more

1. (slang) Third-person singular indicative present of morire

SynonymsEdit

• muore

AnagramsEdit

• mero
• orme
• remo, Remo, remò
• Rome

NounEdit

mōre

1. ablative singular of mōs

NounEdit

more f (5 declension)

1. (archaic) black woman

NounEdit

more

1. taproot

SynonymsEdit

• tāmore

VerbEdit

more (present tense morer; past tense and past participle mora or moret)

1. amuse, entertain

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *murhō(n), *murhijō(n) (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”). Akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German morha, moraha "root of a plant or tree" (German Möhre "carrot", Morchel "mushroom, morel"). More at more, morel.

NounEdit

more f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

DeclensionEdit

SynonymsEdit

• moru

DescendantsEdit

• Middle English more
• English more

VerbEdit

more

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of morar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of morar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of morar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of morar

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /môːre/
• Hyphenation: mo‧re

NounEdit

mȏre n (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)

1. sea

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

• mòrskī

SynonymsEdit

• (Croatia) morje

See alsoEdit

• Category:sh:Seas

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

NounEdit

more n (genitive singular mora, nominative plural moria), declension pattern srdce

1. A body of salt water, sea.
2. (colloquial) A huge amount, a plenty (+genitive)

   máme more času – we have plenty of time

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

• morský -á -é
• zámorie n

VerbEdit

more

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of morar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of morar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of morar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of morar.

NounEdit

more

1. Nasal mutation of bore (“morning”).

MutationEdit