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no more en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not any more; no further.
There's no more wine.
Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff. It's far from 'no more action'.
2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31:
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) Dead, no longer in existence.
She held him until he was no more.
The USSR is no more.
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.
1958 July 14, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:
no more en · ADV
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Meanings
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) No longer; not any more.
Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
No more will he wander Lochaber again.
1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:He will bother you no more.
[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:I will pay no more today.
If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:
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(dated, not-comparable) Equally not; not either.
- I can't swim.
- No more can I.
You could no more climb that fence than fly!
Deriveds
no more Mr. Nice Guy
Relateds
no longer · no less · any more
Translations (18)
eo ne plu (not any longer) · la non iam (not any longer) · de nicht mehr (not any longer) · ro nu mai (not any longer) · grc μηκέτι (not any longer) · sh više ne (not any longer) · sv inte mer (not any longer) · gsw nüme (not any longer) · de nimmer (not any longer) · sv inget mer (not any longer) · cs už ne (not any longer) · fr plus (not any longer) · grc οὐκέτι (not any longer) · it non più (not any longer) · yi מער נישט (not any longer) · fi enää (not any longer) · nl niet meer (not any longer) · pl już nie (not any longer)
no more en · INTJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Meanings
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Stop it! Don't continue!
The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.
2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:
no more en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Meanings
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(idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.
2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:
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