more
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Etymology 1
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”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô; IPA(key): /mɔː/
Audio (UK): (file) - (General American) enPR: môr; IPA(key): /mɔɹ/
Audio (US): (file) - (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr; IPA(key): /mo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /moə/
- (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /moʊ/
- Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); mow (non-rhotic, dough–door merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Determiner
more
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- There are more ways to do this than I can count.
- 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 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.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 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.
- Additional; further.
- If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
- More people are arriving.
- I want more soup.
- I need more time.
- 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.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- all the more
- any more for any more
- bite off more than one can chew
- B-more
- bollocks more like
- couldn't be more different
- cut off more than one can chew
- delay no more
- do more harm than good
- ever-more
- for ever more
- have got more chins than a Chinese phonebook
- have got more chins than a Chinese phone book
- have got more chins than Chinatown
- have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
- have more chins than a Chinese phone book
- have more chins than Chinatown
- have more money than God
- have one more time
- honey catches more flies than vinegar
- make the cheese more binding
- meo more
- more and more
- more at eleven
- more by token
- more Catholic than the Pope
- more confusing than a Rubik's cube
- more cry than wool
- more cushion for the pushin'
- more dead than alive
- more dollars than sense
- more equal
- morefold
- more grease to your elbow
- more haste, less speed
- more heat than light
- more honored in the breach
- more important fish to fry
- more-ish
- more is more
- more kicks than ha'pence
- more life in a tramp's vest
- more like
- more like it
- more money than brains
- more money than sense
- moreness
- more often than not
- more-or-less
- more power to someone
- more power to your arm
- more power to your elbow
- more royalist than the king
- more sacks on the mill
- more sacks to the mill
- more sauce than meat
- more suo
- more than eleven
- more than friends
- more than likely
- more than meets the eye
- more than one can poke a stick at
- more than one can shake a stick at
- more than one cares to mention
- more than someone has had cooked dinners
- more than someone has had hot dinners
- more than you can shake a stick at
- more to the point
- need I say more
- need more time in the oven
- no more
- no more Mister Nice Guy
- no more Mr Nice Guy
- no more Mr. Nice Guy
- no more no less
- once more
- once more into the breach
- one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
- one more again
- one more time
- one more time for the sweet souvenir
- piss more than one drinks
- please speak more slowly
- slip into something more comfortable
- some more
- there are more horses' asses than horses
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there's more than one way to cook an egg
- there's more than one way to crack an egg
- there's more than one way to feed a cat
- there's more than one way to fuck a cat
- there's more than one way to peel an orange
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- there's more where that came from
- the tongue wounds more than a lance
- those that have get more
- those who have get more
- what is more
- what's more
- you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
- you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
- you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
- you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
- you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
- you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
Translations
comparative of many
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comparative of much
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Adverb
more
- To a greater degree or extent. [from 10thc.]
- I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
- I could no more climb that than fly!
- More advanced students.
- I have more than carried out my obligation.
- I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
- 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.
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]
- You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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”, 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 poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10thc.]
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XV, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
comparative of much
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word to form a comparative
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Pronoun
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.
- 2016, Arun P. Mukherjee, “English Studies in Contemporary India”, in M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra, editors, Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, page 254:
- 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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from more (pronoun)
Adjective
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.)
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“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.
Alternative forms
Noun
more (plural mores)
Etymology 3
From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.
Verb
more (third-person singular simple present mores, present participle moring, simple past and past participle mored)
- (transitive) To root up.
Etymology 4
Back-formation from mores.
Pronunciation
Noun
more (plural mores)
- (nonstandard) singular of mores
- 1996, Michael J. Bugeja, “[Influence] The Impact of Social Mores”, in Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part I (Building Your Ethical Base), page 15:
- 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.
- 2004, Robert S. Pomeroy, John E. Parks, Lani M. Watson, “[The MPA management effectiveness indicators] The socio-economic indicators”, in How Is Your MPA Doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (IUCN Programme on Protected Areas), Gland, Cambridge: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 122:
- 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.
- 2008, David R. Caruso, “Emotions and the Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence”, in Robert J. Emmerling, Vinod K. Shanwal, Manas K[umar] Mandal, editors, Emotional Intelligence: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
- Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a social more or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.
- 2008, Barak A. Salmoni, Paula Holmes-Eber, “[Dimension Five – Belief Systems] Some Features of Belief Systems”, in Operational Culture for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications, Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps University Press, →ISBN, part II (Five Operational Culture Dimensions for Planning and Execution), page 189:
- In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.
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