Definitions for more
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Spelling: [mawr, mohr]
IPA: /mɔr, moʊr/
More is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 34 anagrams from letters in more (emor).
Definitions for more
noun
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an additional quantity, amount, or number:
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a greater quantity, amount, or degree:
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something of greater importance:
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(used with a plural verb) a greater number of a class specified, or the greater number of persons:
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Hannah, 1745–1833, English writer on religious subjects.
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Paul Elmer, 1864–1937, U.S. essayist, critic, and editor.
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Sir Thomas, 1478–1535, English humanist, statesman, and author: canonized in 1935.
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Mossi (def 2).
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a large or considerable number of persons or things:
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the many, the greater part of humankind.
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a great quantity, measure, or degree:
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a great, important, or notable thing or matter:
Idioms
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more and more, to an increasing extent or degree; gradually more:
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more or less,
to some extent; somewhat:
about; in substance; approximately:
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make much of,
to treat, represent, or consider as of great importance:
to treat with great consideration; show fondness for; flatter.
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much as,
almost the same as:
however much:
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not so much, Informal. not (def 3).
adverb
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in or to a greater extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more than two syllables, to form comparative phrases having the same force and effect as the comparative degree formed by the termination -er):
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in addition; further; longer; again:
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moreover.
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to a great extent or degree; greatly; far:
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nearly, approximately, or about:
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according to custom.
pronoun
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many persons or things:
adjective
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in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number:
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additional or further:
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constituting or forming a large number; numerous:
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noting each one of a large number (usually followed by a or an):
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great in quantity, measure, or degree:
plural noun
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folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.
Origin of more
before 900; Middle English; Old English māra; cognate with Old High German mēro, Old Norse meiri, Gothic maiza. See most
Examples for more
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
But Avice is—er—my dear, she is like her mother in more ways than one.
"So much the more need that we enshrine her image in our own hearts," rejoined Plato.
For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.
However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
Dad and the mater both say the same now—they're more severe than I was.
As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
For his sake, I am glad once more to be in my own happy home.
She left me more composed and happy than I have been for many days.