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Language: English
Part of speech: det
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: There are more ways to do this than I can count.
text: 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.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
glosses: comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
examples: text: There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
examples: text: If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
text: More people are arriving.
text: I want more soup.
text: I need more time.
glosses: Additional; further.
examples: text: 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.
glosses: Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
Derived terms: all the more
anymore
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
growmore
have got more chins than a Chinese phonebook
have got more chins than a Chinese phone book
have got more chins than Chinatown
have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
have more chins than a Chinese phone book
have more chins than Chinatown
have more money than God
have one more time
honey catches more flies than vinegar
lies beget more lies
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
moredom
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
moreish
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
moreover
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
moresome
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
nethermore
neverthemore
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
overmore
piss more than one drinks
please speak more slowly
slip into something more comfortable
some more
sore boob means more boob
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
uttermore
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