# more

Pronunciation: US say "MOR" /mɔɹ/; UK say "MAW" /mɔː(ɹ)/

## Determiner

1. Comparative of many and much, a greater number of things or a greater amount of something ('more ways than I can count', 'more time than we need'). — comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   - Simple: The comparing form of many and much. It means a bigger number or amount of something.
   - _She has read more books than anyone in the class._
   - _There are more cars on the road every year._
4. Additional or further; simply extra, not compared with anything.
   - Simple: Extra, or further, as in 'more time'.
   - _Would you like more tea?_
   - _We hired two more staff for the summer._
7. Bigger, stronger or more valuable than a description allows ('he is more than the ten years he spent behind bars; his past does not define him').
   - Simple: Greater or better than something suggests, as in 'he is more than his past'.
   - _A school is more than its exam results._
   - _She is more than a pretty face._

## Adverb

2. Used before adjectives and adverbs to form the comparative, always with those that do not take -er and as an option with some that do, with than introducing the standard.
   - Simple: Used before a long adjective or adverb to compare, as in 'more beautiful'.
   - _This route is more direct than the motorway._
   - _She spoke more clearly the second time._
5. To a higher degree or in greater measure.
   - Simple: To a greater degree, as in 'I like this more'.
   - _He worries more than he needs to._
   - _The kids miss their grandmother more than they let on._
6. In addition, whether as a repetition or as further time, as in once more or two minutes more.
   - Simple: Again, or for some extra time, as in once more or two minutes more.
   - _She knocked once more, but nobody came to the door._
   - _If the talks drag on a week more, the strike will begin._
9. Any further or any longer, used after a negative such as no or never. *(literary)*
   - Simple: Any longer, in old or poetic use, as in 'never more'.
   - _They met no more after that winter. (poetic)_
   - _Speak of it no more. (poetic)_
10. Added to a comparative that is already inflected, forming a double comparative; now humorous or proscribed. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: Used wrongly before an '-er' word, as in 'more better'.
   - _The new road is more quicker. (nonstandard)_
   - _He said the cake was more tastier than the pie. (nonstandard)_

## Pronoun

3. A greater or additional number or amount of something understood from the context.
   - Simple: A larger amount or number, or some extra, of something already mentioned.
   - _Two chapters are done and more are on the way._
   - _There is bread on the table and more in the oven._

## Adjective

8. Adjective, comparative of many: greater in number, after 'be' ('applications received were more than each of the previous four years'). — comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   - Simple: Greater in number, after a verb: the comparing form of many.
   - _The people who turned up were more than we had chairs for._
   - _By noon the visitors were more than the staff could handle._

## Noun

11. Nonstandard singular of mores: a single social custom or moral rule ('smoking has become a more of bad manners'). *(nonstandard)* — singular of mores (pronounced: say "MOR-ay" US /ˈmoɹeɪ/, UK /ˈmɔːɹeɪ/)
   - Simple: One custom or rule of a group: a rare, nonstandard singular of mores.
12. A root or stock, as of a tree or other plant. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: A root of a plant, in dialect.
13. A plant, flower or shrub. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: A plant, flower or bush, in dialect.

## Verb

14. To root up, to pull out by the roots ('more the thistles'), from the dialect noun for a root (meaning 12). *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: To pull a plant up by the root, in an old use.

## Noun

15. A carrot or a parsnip. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An old word for a carrot or a parsnip.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–10** — From Middle English more, from Old English māra ("more"), which goes back through Proto-Germanic *maizô to a Proto-Indo-European root. It is related to Dutch meer, German mehr, and Swedish mera, all meaning "more."
**Meanings 12–13, 15** — From Middle English more ("root"), from Old English more, moru ("carrot, parsnip"), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ ("carrot"), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *merk- ("edible herb, tuber") or an old European loanword. It is related to Old High German morha ("root") and German Möhre ("carrot").
**Meaning 14** — From Middle English moren, formed from the noun more ("root").
**Meaning 11** — A back-formation from mores.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/more (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).