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”).
Meanings
(comparative, form-of) comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
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”).
Meanings
To a greater degree or extent.
More advanced students.
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. 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, page 34:
I have more than carried out my obligation.
I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
I could no more climb that than fly!
I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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. 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:
You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
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. 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
I am much more eager to help than you.
(poetic) 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. 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:
(dialectal, humorous, proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
ga tuilleadh (comparative of much) · es más (comparative of much) · fr plus (comparative of much) · fi enemmän (comparative of much) · fr plus (word to form a comparative) · la plūs (comparative of much) · fa بیشتر (comparative of much) · km ជាង (word to form a comparative) · el πιο (word to form a comparative) · fr davantage de (comparative of much) · cs více (comparative of much) · hu -abb (word to form a comparative) · nan-hbl 閣較 /阁较 (comparative of much) · hi अधिक (comparative of much) · nrf pus (comparative of much) · hu jobban (comparative of much) · tl mas (word to form a comparative) · rm ple (comparative of much) · ja よりたくさん (comparative of much) · hu -ebb (word to form a comparative) · ca més (word to form a comparative) · ja もっと (word to form a comparative) · fi enemmän (word to form a comparative) · qu yalli (word to form a comparative) · roa-brg pus (comparative of much) · io plu (comparative of much) · la -ior (word to form a comparative) · bg повече (comparative of much) · la -us (word to form a comparative) · da mere (word to form a comparative) · el περισσότερο (comparative of much) · uk ще (comparative of much) · qu aswan (word to form a comparative) · sk viacero (comparative of much) · grc μᾶλλον (comparative of much) · sv mer (comparative of much) · grc -ιον (word to form a comparative) · io plu multe (comparative of much) · hy ավելին (comparative of much) · wa pus (word to form a comparative) · rom maj (word to form a comparative) · gl chus (comparative of much) · sv mer (word to form a comparative) · rom -eder (word to form a comparative) · sco mair (comparative of much) · hu -bb (word to form a comparative) · fur plui (comparative of much) · rm ple (word to form a comparative) · grc -ίων (word to form a comparative) · pcd pus (comparative of much) · ga níos mó (word to form a comparative) · xag 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺 (word to form a comparative) · bg повече (word to form a comparative) · ur اور (word to form a comparative) · nl meer (comparative of much) · la magis (comparative of much) · gu વધારે (comparative of much) · cmn 更 (word to form a comparative) · nb mer (comparative of much) · grc -τερος (word to form a comparative) · ne धेरै (comparative of much) · ja もう (comparative of much) · gd motha (comparative of much) · tr daha fazla (comparative of much) · as বেছি (comparative of much) · hi ज्यादा (comparative of much) · eo pli (word to form a comparative) · cmn 更多 (comparative of much) · hi और (word to form a comparative) · qu yalli (comparative of much) · mn дээр (word to form a comparative) · msk labi (comparative of much) · zdj raha (word to form a comparative) · th อีก (word to form a comparative) · sv mera (comparative of much) · zza tayna (diq) (comparative of much) · lld plu (comparative of much) · sk viac (comparative of much) · it più (word to form a comparative) · ru бо́лее (word to form a comparative) · rm pü (word to form a comparative) · grc -τερον (word to form a comparative) · xag 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺 (comparative of much) · hu -obb (word to form a comparative) · ia plus (word to form a comparative) · rm plü (word to form a comparative) · nn meir (word to form a comparative) · gd tuilleadh (comparative of much) · az daha (word to form a comparative) · nl meer (word to form a comparative) · nb mer (word to form a comparative) · az -rək (word to form a comparative) · ru ещё (comparative of much) · de mehr (comparative of much) · arc טפי (word to form a comparative) · it più (comparative of much) · be бо́льш (comparative of much) · ru бо́льше (comparative of much) · la abundantior (comparative of much) · es en más (word to form a comparative) · pt mais (word to form a comparative) · ur زیادہ (word to form a comparative) · ar أَكْثَر (comparative of much) · zza zeder (comparative of much) · mn сайн (word to form a comparative) · sl bòlj (word to form a comparative) · mfe pli (word to form a comparative) · rom po (word to form a comparative) · eo pli (comparative of much) · fa -تر (word to form a comparative) · nan-hbl 較 /较 (word to form a comparative) · pl bardziej (word to form a comparative) · ko 더 (comparative of much) · mn дээр (comparative of much) · uk бі́льше (comparative of much) · ca més (comparative of much) · got 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌹𐍃 (comparative of much) · cmn 更加 (comparative of much) · qu aswan (comparative of much) · la plus (word to form a comparative) · zza dehana vêşi (comparative of much) · hy ավելի (word to form a comparative) · et rohkem (comparative of much) · ia plus (comparative of much) · vi hơn (word to form a comparative) · ja よりおおく (comparative of much) · fi -mpi (word to form a comparative) · ist pioûn (comparative of much) · pl więcej (comparative of much) · mk по- (word to form a comparative) · es más (word to form a comparative) · jv luwih (comparative of much) · la -or (word to form a comparative) · hi अधिक (word to form a comparative) · uk більш (word to form a comparative) · rm pli (word to form a comparative) · pt mais (comparative of much) · nn meir (comparative of much) · rm pü (comparative of much) · sco mair (word to form a comparative) · io plu (word to form a comparative) · ro mai (word to form a comparative) · tr daha (word to form a comparative) · da mere (comparative of much) · mr जास्त (comparative of much) · cs víc (comparative of much) · la -ius (word to form a comparative) · sk viacej (comparative of much) · gl máis (word to form a comparative) · rm pli (comparative of much) · mr अजून (word to form a comparative) · rm plü (comparative of much) · ko 더 (word to form a comparative) · gl máis (comparative of much)
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”).
Meanings
(comparative, form-of) comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
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. 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
(comparative, form-of) 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. 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
Additional; further.
More people are arriving.
I need more time.
If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
I want more soup.
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.
es más (comparative of much) · fr plus (comparative of much) · pt mais (comparative of many) · sh ви̏ше̄ (comparative of many) · fi enemmän (comparative of much) · hu több (comparative of many) · fa بیشتر (comparative of much) · shi ati (comparative of many) · mt aktar (comparative of many) · hy ավելի շատ (comparative of much) · it più (comparative of many) · ja ...より多く (comparative of much) · sl več (comparative of many) · cs více (comparative of much) · bg още (comparative of many) · br mui (comparative of much) · wa dipus di (comparative of many) · txb auṣap (comparative of many) · sk viacero (comparative of many) · wa pus di (comparative of many) · uz ko’proq (comparative of many) · cs více (comparative of many) · bg повече (comparative of much) · pl więcej (comparative of many) · uk ще (comparative of much) · sk viacero (comparative of much) · sv mer (comparative of much) · be яшчэ́ (comparative of much) · ca més (comparative of many) · bg още (comparative of much) · pcd pus (comparative of many) · grc πλείων (comparative of many) · la plus (comparative of much) · sco mair (comparative of much) · arz اكتر (comparative of many) · ru ещё (comparative of much) · yue 再多啲 (comparative of much) · yi מער (comparative of many) · sv fler (comparative of many) · fr plus (comparative of many) · io plu multa (comparative of many) · dlm ple (comparative of much) · ltg vēļ (comparative of much) · nl meer (comparative of much) · el κι άλλος (comparative of many) · fa بیشتر (comparative of many) · ms lebih (comparative of much) · da flere (comparative of much) · nb mer (comparative of much) · gd motha (comparative of much) · sk viacej (comparative of many) · ltg vaira (comparative of many) · hu még (comparative of much) · lld plu (comparative of many) · msk labi (comparative of many) · mn илүү (comparative of much) · nrf pus (comparative of many) · sk viac (comparative of much) · oc pus (comparative of many) · ltg vairs (comparative of many) · nn fleire (comparative of many) · bg по́вече (comparative of many) · txb auṣap (comparative of much) · el περισσότερος (comparative of many) · fi useampi (comparative of many) · da mere (comparative of many) · sq më (comparative of many) · be больш (comparative of much) · gd tuilleadh (comparative of much) · la plus (comparative of many) · cmn 更多 (comparative of many) · de mehr (comparative of much) · it più (comparative of much) · eo pli multe da (comparative of much) · txb allek (comparative of many) · ru бо́льше (comparative of much) · cs víc (comparative of many) · mfe pli (comparative of much) · hu több (comparative of much) · wa pus di (comparative of much) · abs lebe (comparative of many) · ro mai mult (comparative of many) · ar أَكْثَر (comparative of many) · ar أَكْثَر (comparative of much) · uk бі́льше (comparative of many) · ja もっと多く (comparative of many) · he יוֹתֵר (comparative of many) · wa dipus di (comparative of much) · eo pli da (comparative of many) · ms lebih (comparative of many) · el κι άλλος (comparative of much) · ml കൂടുതൽ (comparative of many) · sv flera (comparative of many) · shi uggwar (comparative of much) · nap chiù (comparative of many) · vi nhiều hơn (comparative of many) · acw أَكْثَر (comparative of many) · af meer (comparative of many) · as সৰহ (comparative of many) · el περισσότερος (comparative of much) · eo pli da (comparative of much) · roa-brg pus (comparative of many) · eo pli multe da (comparative of many) · uk бі́льше (comparative of much) · yi מער (comparative of much) · ca més (comparative of much) · de mehr (comparative of many) · yue 多啲 (comparative of much) · ja もっと多く (comparative of much) · gl máis (comparative of many) · mn илүү (comparative of many) · cy mwy (comparative of much) · grc πλείων (comparative of much) · ia plus (comparative of much) · lv vēl (comparative of much) · ru бо́льше (comparative of many) · sq ma (comparative of many) · ro mai (comparative of much) · pl więcej (comparative of much) · he יוֹתֵר (comparative of much) · got 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰 (comparative of many) · oc mai (comparative of many) · abs lebe (comparative of much) · as বেছি (comparative of many) · sh vȉšē (comparative of many) · eo pli multaj (comparative of many) · be больш (comparative of many) · nl meer (comparative of many) · es más (comparative of many) · pt mais (comparative of much) · nn meir (comparative of much) · ia plus (comparative of many) · fr mieux (Saint-Étienne) (comparative of much) · gd motha (comparative of many) · io plu multa (comparative of much) · cs víc (comparative of much) · sk viacej (comparative of much) · cmn 更多 (comparative of much) · nap chiù (comparative of much) · lv vairāk (comparative of many) · nb flere (comparative of many) · mk повеќе (comparative of many) · ja ...よりたくさん (comparative of much) · txb allek (comparative of much) · fr mieux (Saint-Étienne) (comparative of many) · ja ...より多く (comparative of many) · sco mair (comparative of many) · sk viac (comparative of many) · fi enemmän (comparative of many) · af meer (comparative of much) · fur plui (comparative of many) · bho अधिका (comparative of many) · gl máis (comparative of much) · hi अधिकतर (comparative of many) · ja ...よりたくさん (comparative of many)
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”).
Meanings
A greater number or quantity (of something).
We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
I'd love to see more of Bob and Linda.
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. 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:
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.
Meanings
(obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
(dialectal) A root; stock.
(dialectal) A plant; flower; shrub.
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Etymology
From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.
Meanings
(transitive) To root up.
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Pronunciation
/ˈmɔː.ɹeɪ/
Etymology
Back-formation from mores.
Meanings
(form-of, nonstandard, singular) singular of mores
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. 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:
In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more. 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 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. 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:
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, 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: