English

Alternative forms

• Mòoré
• Mooré
• Moré
• Moshi
• Mossi
• Moore

Proper noun

More

1. The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.

Translations

External links

• Ethnologue entry for More, mos

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic mór ‎(“big”). Also a variant of Moore.

Alternative forms

• Morus (Latin)

Proper noun

More

1. A surname​.

External links

• Thomas More on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• omer
• Rome

French

Noun

More m ‎(plural Mores)

1. Alternative spelling of Maure; Moor

Anagrams

• orme
• Rome

German

Alternative forms

• Mora

Etymology

From Latin mora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːʀə/
• Homophone: Moore

Noun

More f ‎(genitive More, plural Moren)

1. (phonology) mora

Declension

Middle French

Noun

More m (plural Mores)

1. Moor (person of Berber descent)

English

Alternative forms

• mo
• mo'
• (Internet slang) moar

Determiner

more

1. Comparative form of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   More people are arriving.‎

   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.

2. Comparative form of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

   I want more soup;  I need more time‎

   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, page 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.

Derived terms

• more haste, less speed

Translations

Adverb

more ‎(not comparable)

1. To a greater degree or extent. [from 10^thc.]

   He walks more in the morning these days.‎

   • 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.

2. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.XV, Ch.II:

     Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

3. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13^thc.]

   You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

4. (now dialectal or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18^thc.) [from 13^thc.]

   I was more better at English than you.‎

Derived terms

• more or less
• more so

Translations

Noun

more ‎(uncountable)

1. An extra amount or extent.

Derived terms

See also

• most

Etymology 2

From Middle English more, moore ‎(“carrot, parsnip”) from Old English more, moru ‎(“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ ‎(“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- ‎(“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.

Noun

more ‎(plural mores)

1. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
2. (dialectal) a root; stock.
3. A plant.

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)

1. (transitive) To root up.

Statistics

Anagrams

• omer
• Rome

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mor, ore

Etymology

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. It is the source of same interjection found in all Balkan languages

Interjection

more

1. 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.

Related terms

• moj

Basque

Noun

more

1. purple

See also

Danish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. To amuse, entertain

Derived terms

• morskab c
• morsom
• morsomhed c

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin mora.

Noun

more m, f ‎(plural moren, diminutive moretje n)

1. The unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre

Anagrams

• moer, roem, Rome

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: maure, maures, mores

Noun

more f ‎(plural mores)

1. (phonology) mora

Adjective

more m, f ‎(plural mores)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

Related terms

• More m

Anagrams

• orme
• Rome

Italian

Noun

more f

1. plural of mora

Verb

more

1. (slang) Third-person singular indicative present of morire

Synonyms

• muore

Anagrams

• mero
• orme
• remo, Remo, remò
• Rome

Latin

Noun

mōre

1. ablative singular of mōs

References

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

Latvian

Noun

more f (5 declension)

1. (archaic) black woman

Maori

Noun

more

1. taproot

Synonyms

• tāmore

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

more (present tense morer; past tense and past participle mora or moret)

1. amuse, entertain

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *murhō(n), *murhijō(n) ‎(“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- ‎(“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 more, morel.

Noun

more f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

Declension

Synonyms

• moru

Descendants

• Middle English more
• English more

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾe/

Verb

more

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of morar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of morar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of morar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of morar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /môːre/
• Hyphenation: mo‧re

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mȏre n ‎(Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)

1. sea

Declension

Derived terms

• mòrskī

Synonyms

• (Croatia) morje

See also

• Category:sh:Seas

Etymology 2

From Greek μωρέ ‎(moré).

Interjection

mȏre ‎(Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)

1. (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!«

2. (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), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 7, JAZU: Zagreb

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *morje, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

more n ‎(genitive singular mora, nominative plural moria, declension pattern of srdce)

1. A body of salt water, sea.
2. (colloquial) A huge amount, a plenty (+genitive)

   máme more času – we have plenty of time

Declension

Derived terms

• morský -á -é
• zámorie n

Spanish

Verb

more

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of morar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of morar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of morar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of morar.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːrɛ/

Noun

more

1. Nasal mutation of bore ‎(“morning”).

Mutation