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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô, IPA(key): /mɔː/
- (General American) enPR: môr, IPA(key): /mɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr, IPA(key): /mo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /moə/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (all three only in accents with the pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
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”).
Alternative formsEdit
DeterminerEdit
more
- 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.
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2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in 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.
- 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.
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2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in 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.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
comparative of many
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comparative of much
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AdverbEdit
more (not comparable)
- To a greater degree or extent. [from 10thc.]
- He walks more in the morning these days.
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2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in 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.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10thc.]
- 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.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.XV, Ch.II:
- Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]
- You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in 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.
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2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in 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.
- (now dialectal or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) [from 13thc.]
- I was more better at English than you.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
comparative of much
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word to form a comparative
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NounEdit
more (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from more (noun)
See alsoEdit
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)
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)
- (transitive) To root up.
StatisticsEdit
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
According to Orel from the aoristic form of marr without a clear sense development. It could also be a remnant of a grammatical structure of a lost substrate language. It is the source of same interjection found in all Balkan languages
InterjectionEdit
more
- vocative particle used in a call to a man.
Usage notesEdit
Can be placed before or after the noun, whereas bre can only be placed after.
Related termsEdit
BasqueEdit
NounEdit
more
See alsoEdit
| Colors in Basque · koloreak (layout · text) | ||||
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| gorri | berde | hori | ? | zuri |
| {{{crimson}}} | ? | ? | ? | arrosa |
| ? | urdin | laranja | gris | ? |
| beltz | more | marroi | ? | ? |
DanishEdit
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, perfect tense har moret)
Derived termsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
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EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
more m, f (plural moren, diminutive moretje n)
- The unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
more f (plural mores)
AdjectiveEdit
more m, f (plural mores)
Related termsEdit
- More m
AnagramsEdit
External linksEdit
- “more” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
NounEdit
mōre
ReferencesEdit
- more in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
LatvianEdit
MaoriEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Old EnglishEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
Declension of more (weak)
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
more
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of morar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of morar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of morar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of morar
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
NounEdit
mȏre n (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of more
Derived termsEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (Croatia) morje
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
InterjectionEdit
mȏre (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)
- (Serbia) when spoken sharply, asserts that the speaker is stronger or older or more powerful than the addressee, sometimes expressing contempt or superiority
- 1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Narodne srpske pjesme:
- »More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«
- »More, Marko, don’t plow up our roads!« / »More, Turks, don’t walk on my plowing!«
- »More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«
- 1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Narodne srpske pjesme:
- (Serbia) when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf. bre
Usage notesEdit
More is most often used in addressing a single male, more rarely when addressing groups of males, and more rarely still when addressing females.
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Tomislav Maretić (editor) (1911), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 7, JAZU: Zagreb
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
NounEdit
more n (genitive singular mora, nominative plural moria, declension pattern of srdce)
- A body of salt water, sea.
- (colloquial) A huge amount, a plenty (+genitive)
- máme more času – we have plenty of time
DeclensionEdit
Declension of more
Derived termsEdit
External linksEdit
- more in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
more
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of morar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of morar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of morar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of morar.
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɛ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmoːrɛ/
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NounEdit
more
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| bore | fore | more | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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