# more
## English
### Etymology 1

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”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).

#### Alternative forms

* (informal or nonstandard) mo, mo'
* (Internet slang) moar

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô; IPA: /mɔː/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) enPR: môr; IPA: /moɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr; IPA: /mo(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /moə/
* (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA: /moʊ/
* Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); mow (non-rhotic, dough–door merger)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

#### Determiner

more
* comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
    There are more ways to do this than I can count.
** 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist‎, volume 411, number 8891: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.
* 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.
** 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3: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.
* Additional; further.
    If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
    More people are arriving.
    I want more soup.
    I need more time.
* 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.

##### Antonyms

* fewer
* less

##### Derived terms

* all the more
* any more for any more
* bite off more than one can chew
* B-more
* bollocks more like
* couldn't be more different
* cut off more than one can chew
* delay no more
* do more harm than good
* ever-more
* for ever more
* have got more chins than a Chinese phone book
* have got more chins than a Chinese phonebook
* have got more chins than Chinatown
* have more chins than a Chinese phone book
* have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
* have more chins than Chinatown
* have more money than God
* have one more time
* honey catches more flies than vinegar
* make the cheese more binding
* meo more
* more and more
* more at eleven
* more by token
* more Catholic than the Pope
* more confusing than a Rubik's cube
* more cry than wool
* more cushion for the pushin'
* more dead than alive
* more dollars than sense
* more equal
* morefold
* more grease to your elbow
* more haste, less speed
* more heat than light
* more honored in the breach
* more important fish to fry
* more-ish
* more is more
* more kicks than ha'pence
* more life in a tramp's vest
* more like
* more like it
* more money than brains
* more money than sense
* moreness
* more often than not
* more-or-less
* more power to someone
* more power to your arm
* more power to your elbow
* more royalist than the king
* more sacks on the mill
* more sacks to the mill
* more sauce than meat
* more suo
* more than eleven
* more than friends
* more than likely
* more than meets the eye
* more than one can poke a stick at
* more than one can shake a stick at
* more than one cares to mention
* more than someone has had cooked dinners
* more than someone has had hot dinners
* more than you can shake a stick at
* more to the point
* need I say more
* need more time in the oven
* no more
* no more Mister Nice Guy
* no more Mr Nice Guy
* no more Mr. Nice Guy
* no more no less
* nothing more than
* once more
* once more into the breach
* one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
* one more again
* one more time
* one more time for the sweet souvenir
* piss more than one drinks
* please speak more slowly
* slip into something more comfortable
* some more
* there are more horses' asses than horses
* there are plenty more fish in the sea
* there's more than one way to cook an egg
* there's more than one way to crack an egg
* there's more than one way to feed a cat
* there's more than one way to fuck a cat
* there's more than one way to peel an orange
* there's more than one way to skin a cat
* there's more where that came from
* the tongue wounds more than a lance
* those that have get more
* those who have get more
* what is more
* what's more
* you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
* you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
* you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
* you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
* you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
* you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

##### Translations
#### Adverb

more
* To a greater degree or extent. [from 10thc.]
    I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
    I could no more climb that than fly!
    More advanced students.
    I have more than carried out my obligation.
    I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
** 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34: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.
* Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]
    You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
    I am more eager to help than you.
** 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: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”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4: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.
* (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10thc.]
** 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in, 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:Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. [from 13thc.; standard until 18thc.]
    I was more better at English than you.

##### Derived terms

* more or less
* more so

##### Translations

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#### Pronoun

more
* A greater number or quantity (of something).
    We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
    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.
** 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: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.

##### Derived terms

* less is more
* more's the pity
* more than one bargained for
* say no more
* the more the merrier

#### Adjective

more
* comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
    Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
* comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

#### See also

* most

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Alternative forms

* moor (dialectal)

#### Noun

more (plural mores)
* (obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
* (dialectal) A root; stock.
* (dialectal) A plant; flower; shrub.
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

### Etymology 3

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

#### Verb

more (third-person singular simple present mores, present participle moring, simple past and past participle mored)
* (transitive) To root up.

### Etymology 4

Back-formation from mores.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪ/

#### Noun

more (plural mores)
* (nonstandard) singular of mores
** 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: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.
** 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: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.
** 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: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, 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 a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.

### Anagrams

* Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, omer

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

According to Orel from the aoristic form of marr without a clear sense development. It could also be a remnant of a grammatical structure of a lost substrate language, which may be the source of the same interjection found in all Balkan languages. Alternatively, from Greek μωρέ (moré, “mate”, interjection, literally “stupid!”), a frozen vocative of μωρός (mōrós). In that case, it may be a doublet of bre.

#### Interjection

more
* man!, mate!, dude!, bro! (vocative particle used in a call to a man)

##### Usage notes

Can be placed before or after the noun, whereas bre can only be placed after.

##### Alternative forms

* mor, ore

##### Related terms

* moj

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: موره (more)

### Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Southern Slavic море ("sea").

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmo.re]

#### Adjective

more
* dark blue Glossed as Polish szafirowe by Simon Kazanxhiu (ca. 1820).

##### Alternative forms

* morre

##### Synonyms

* e kaltër

### References

* ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997
* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2028
* ↑ ngjyrë more (ngjyrë e kaltër e mbyllur), in: Fadil Sulejmani: Lindja, martesa dhe mortja në malësitë e Tetovës, 1988, faqja 174.

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moɾe/ [mo.ɾe]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾe, -e
* Hyphenation: mo‧re

### Noun

more inan
* purple

#### Declension
### See also

Colors in Basque · koloreak (layout · text) :
| zuri | gris | beltz |
| gorri | laranja; marroi | hori |
| | berde | |
| | oztin | urdin |
| ubel | more | arrosa |

### References

* “more”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
* “more”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmorɛ]

### Noun

more
* vocative singular of mor

## Danish
### Etymology

Derived from moro (“fun”), which may be a compound of mod, from Old Norse móðr (“mind”) and ro, from ró (“rest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoːʌ/

### Verb

more (imperative mor, infinitive at more, present tense morer, past tense morede, perfect tense har moret)
* To amuse, entertain

#### Derived terms

* morskab c
* morsom
* morsomhed c

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Latin mora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoː.rə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mo‧re

### Noun

more m or f (plural moren, diminutive moretje n)
* the unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre

### Anagrams

* moer, roem, Rome

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: mord, mords, mores, mors, mort, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)

### Noun

more f (plural mores)
* (phonology) mora

### Adjective

more (plural mores)
* (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

#### Related terms

* More m

### Further reading

* “more”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* orme, Rome

## Friulian
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

more f (plural moris)
* mulberry

### Noun

more f (plural moris)
* (phonology) mora

## Galician
### Verb

more
* inflection of morar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.re/
* Rhymes: -ɔre
* Hyphenation: mò‧re

### Noun

more f
* plural of mora

### Adjective

more
* feminine plural of moro

### Verb

more
* (slang) third-person singular present indicative of morire

#### Alternative forms

* muore

### References

* ↑ more in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -mero, Remo, Rome, ermo, mero, orme, remo, remò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.re/, [ˈmoːrɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.re/, [ˈmɔːre]

### Noun

mōre m
* ablative singular of mōs (“manner, custom”)

### References

* "more", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Latvian
### Noun

more f (5 declension, masculine form: moris)
* (archaic) black woman, blackamoor, black moor

#### Declension
## Maori
### Noun

more
* taproot

#### Synonyms

* tāmore

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

#### Alternative forms

* mare, moore

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔːr(ə)/

#### Determiner

more
* more
** 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 35, recto, lines 10–11:Now is þ[er] ony ſeyde Marlyon that ye love more than a noþ[er] ·(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Descendants

* English: more
* Geordie English: mair
* Scots: mair
* Yola: more, mo'

##### References

* “mōr(e, adj. (comparative).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English more and moru (“carrot, parsnip”), from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, *morhu, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhō.

#### Alternative forms

* moore, morre

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔːr(ə)/

#### Noun

more (plural mores or (early) moren)
* root (of a plant)
    Synonym: rote
* (rare) root, (of a hair, tooth, or tongue)
* (figuratively, rare) source, root

##### Descendants

* English: more (dialectal)

##### References

* “mōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

more (present tense morer, past tense mora or moret, past participle mora or moret)
* amuse, entertain

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”). Cognate with Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German moraha (German Möhre).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmo.re/

### Noun

more f
* carrot
* parsnip

#### Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

#### Related terms

* moru

#### Descendants

* Middle English: more, moore, morre
** English: more (dialectal)
* → Welsh: moron

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.ɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.ɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.ɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɔ.ɾɨ/

### Verb

more
* inflection of morar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /môːre/
* Hyphenation: mo‧re

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moře, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

#### Noun

mȏre n (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре, relational adjective mòrskī)
* sea
* (by extension, preceded by preposition na) seaside or shore (any area or place near the sea where the sea is seen as the defining feature)
    Čim dođe ljeto, idemo na more! ― Once the summer is here, we're gonna go to the seaside!
    Cijelo ljeto ću provesti na moru. ― I will spend the entire summer at the shore.
* (figurative) a vast expanse or quantity of something, usually detrimental or unwelcome
    Ako se ne pozabavimo time sada, biti ćemo u moru nevolja!If we do not deal with that now, we will be in a sea of troubles!

##### Synonyms

* (Croatia, archaic) morje

#### See also

* okèān

### Etymology 2

From Greek μωρέ (moré). Possible doublet of bre.

#### Interjection

mȏre (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)
* (Serbia) when spoken sharply, asserts that the speaker is stronger or older or more powerful than the addressee, sometimes expressing contempt or superiority
** 1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Narodne srpske pjesme:
    »More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«»More, Marko, don’t plow up our roads!« / »More, Turks, don’t walk on my plowing!«
* (Serbia) when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf. bre

##### Usage notes

More is most often used in addressing a single male, more rarely when addressing groups of males, and more rarely still when addressing females.

##### Related terms

* bre

#### References

* Tomislav Maretić, editor (1911–1916), “mȍre 1”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7, Zagreb: JAZU, page 4

### Etymology 3
#### Interjection

more (Cyrillic spelling море)
* (Croatia, Kajkavian, colloquial) Alternative form of može

#### Noun

more (Cyrillic spelling море)
* inflection of mora:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

#### Verb

more (Cyrillic spelling море)
* third-person plural present of moriti

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moře.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɔre]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

more n
* a body of salt water, sea
* (colloquial) a huge amount, plenty (+genitive)
    máme more času ― we have plenty of time

#### Derived terms

* morský
* zámorie n

### Further reading

* “more”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoɾe/ [ˈmo.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -oɾe
* Syllabification: mo‧re

### Verb

more
* inflection of morar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈmɔrɛ/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ˈmɔra/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈmoːrɛ/, /ˈmɔrɛ/

### Noun

more
* Nasal mutation of bore (“morning”).

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* mo'

### Etymology

From Middle English more, from Old English māra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔːr/, /mɔː/

### Adjective

more
* more
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:More trolleen, an yalpeen, an moulteen away.More rolling and spewing, and pining away.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86