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more (môr)

adjective

  1. greater in amount, degree, or number: often used as the comparative of much or many we have more time than we thought
  2. additional; further take more tea

Etymology: ME < OE mara, greater, used as compar. of mycel, big, much (see much): akin to Goth maiza < IE base *mē-, *mō-, big

noun

  1. a greater amount, quantity, or degree
    1. a greater number (of persons or things) more of us are going
    2. a greater number of persons or things
  2. something additional or further more can be said
  3. something of greater importance

adverb

  1. in or to a greater degree or extent: used with many adjectives and adverbs (regularly with those of three or more syllables) to form the comparative degree more satisfying, more intensely
  2. in addition; further; again; longer

Etymology: < the above, replacing earlier mo (OE ma) < IE positive *me-ro-s, *mō-ro-s < *mē-, *mō-

more Idioms

more and more

  1. to an increasing degree; increasingly
  2. a constantly increasing amount, quantity, degree, or number (of persons or a specified thing)

more or less

  1. to some extent
  2. approximately
More definition

More (môr)

  1. More, Hannah 1745-1833; Eng. writer, esp. of religious tracts
  2. More, Sir Thomas 1478-1535; Eng. statesman & writer: executed: canonized in 1935
    also called Saint Thomas More

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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