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more (môr)
adjective
- greater in amount, degree, or number: often used as the comparative of much or many we have more time than we thought
- 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
- a greater amount, quantity, or degree
- a greater number (of persons or things) more of us are going
- a greater number of persons or things
- something additional or further more can be said
- something of greater importance
adverb
- 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
- in addition; further; again; longer
Etymology: < the above, replacing earlier mo (OE ma) < IE positive *me-ro-s, *mō-ro-s < *mē-, *mō-
more and more
- to an increasing degree; increasingly
- a constantly increasing amount, quantity, degree, or number (of persons or a specified thing)
more or less
- to some extent
- approximately
More (môr)
- More, Hannah 1745-1833; Eng. writer, esp. of religious tracts
- More, Sir Thomas 1478-1535; Eng. statesman & writer: executed: canonized in 1935also 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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