Definitions for mores

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mores mo·res

Spelling: [mawr-eyz, -eez, mohr-]

IPA: /ˈmɔr eɪz, -iz, ˈmoʊr-/

Mores is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in mores (emors).

Definitions for mores

noun

1. an additional quantity, amount, or number:
2. a greater quantity, amount, or degree:
3. something of greater importance:
4. (used with a plural verb) a greater number of a class specified, or the greater number of persons:
5. Hannah, 1745–1833, English writer on religious subjects.
6. Paul Elmer, 1864–1937, U.S. essayist, critic, and editor.
7. Sir Thomas, 1478–1535, English humanist, statesman, and author: canonized in 1935.
8. Mossi (def 2).

Idioms

1. more and more, to an increasing extent or degree; gradually more:
2. more or less, to some extent; somewhat: about; in substance; approximately:

adverb

1. 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):
2. in addition; further; longer; again:
3. moreover.

adjective

1. in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number:
2. additional or further:

plural noun

1. folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.

Origin of mores

1905-10; Latin mōres, plural of mōs usage, custom

Examples for mores

But the anxious tone was not merely due to the mores of his time.

Philosophers do not wholly detach themselves from the mores of their race.

The reason is because the standards of good and right are in the mores.

The change is not in the mores of France, but in its geopolitical and economic history.

In Egypt, it has not obliterated the mores of a place that has known better times.

But by night, some say, the mores of a male-controlled culture dominate.

We may now formulate a more complete definition of the mores.

The process by which mores are developed and established is ritual.

There are three things at least, as regards our mores that cannot be accomplished.

Women have long expressed their sexuality—and the mores of the time—through their choice of undergarments.