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Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: mô
ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: môr
ipa: /mɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mōr
ipa: /mo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /moə/
note: non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /moʊ/
homophone: moor
homophone: Moor
homophone: Moore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: maw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: mow (non-rhotic, dough–door merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mo
form: mo'
form: moar
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
text: I could no more climb that than fly!
text: More advanced students.
text: I have more than carried out my obligation.
text: I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, page 34:
glosses: To a greater degree or extent.
examples: text: You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
text: I am much more eager to help than you.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
examples: text: Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], 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:
glosses: In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
examples: text: I was more better at English than you.
glosses: Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
Derived terms: more or less
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