More definition
A greater or additional quantity, number, degree, or amount.
The more I see of you the more I like you.
noun
A greater or additional number of persons or things.
I opened only two bottles but more were in the refrigerator.
pronoun
(person) 1478-1535; Eng. statesman & writer: executed: canonized in 1935
proper name
Greater in amount, degree, or number.
We have more time than we thought.
adjective
In addition.
Phoned twice more.
adverb
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Additional; further.
Take more tea.
adjective
Something additional or further.
More can be said.
noun
In addition; further; again; longer.
adverb
More is defined as something done again, or something that is done or felt to a larger extent.
An example of more means you go down the slide once again.
An example of more means that you prefer dogs to cats.
adverb
In or to a greater degree or extent.
More satisfying, more intensely.
adverb
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Used for placenames.
suffix
(person) 1745-1833; Eng. writer, esp. of religious tracts.
proper name
More means a larger amount or greater number of things.
An example of more is when you have two cats and you get a third cat.
pronoun
Additional; extra.
She needs some more time.
adjective
Greater in number.
A hall with more seats.
adjective
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Greater in size, amount, extent, or degree.
More land; more support.
adjective
Moreover; furthermore.
adverb
To or in a greater extent or degree.
Loved him even more.
adverb
Used to form the comparative of many adjectives and adverbs.
More difficult; more softly.
adverb
A greater amount, quantity, or degree.
noun
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Something of greater importance.
noun
A greater number (of persons or things)
More of us are going.
noun
A greater number of persons or things.
noun
Comparative form of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
I want more soup; I need more time.
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
determiner
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Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13th c.]
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, The Celebrity.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", American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:"ŠAncient 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.
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
adverb
(now dialectal or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18th century.) [from 13th c.]
No more than a disagreement from a friend.
adverb
The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
pronoun
(archaic) Used to form a comparative of certain adjectives and adverbs, usually ending in -er.
suffix
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more and more
- To a steadily increasing extent or degree:Getting more and more worried.
idiom
more or less
- About; approximately:Holds two tons, more or less.
- To an undetermined degree:Were more or less in agreement.
idiom
more and more
- to an increasing degree; increasingly
- a constantly increasing amount, quantity, degree, or number (of persons or a specified thing)
idiom
more or less
- to some extent
- approximately
idiom
no more
- not more; nothing furtherLet's have no more of your insolence.
- no longer in existenceThe glory that was Rome is no more.
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of more
- Middle English from Old English māra māre mē-3 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more"), from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more"), from Proto-Indo-European *mÄ“- (“many"). Cognate with Scots mair (“more"), West Frisian mear (“more"), Dutch meer (“more"), Low German mehr (“more"), German mehr (“more"), Danish mere (“more"), Swedish mera (“more"), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more").
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English more, moore (“carrot, parsnip") from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip") from Proto-Germanic *murhō(n), *murhijō(n) (“carrot"), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“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.
From Wiktionary
- From Scottish Gaelic mór (“big"). Also a variant of Moore.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English -more
From Wiktionary