More

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: mô, IPA: /mɔː(ɹ)/
• US enPR: môr, IPA: /mɔɹ/, /moʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

From Middle English more, from Old English māra ("more"), from Proto-Germanic *maizô ("more"), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- ("many"). Cognate with Scots mair ("more"), West Frisian mear ("more"), Dutch meer ("more"), Low German mehr ("more"), German mehr ("more"), Danish mere ("more"), Swedish mera ("more"), Icelandic meiri, meira ("more").

Full definition of more

Determiner

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.
• 2014-06-14, It's a gas, 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) 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.
• 2013-06-29, A punch in the gut, 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.

Adverb

1. To a greater degree or extent. from 10th c.
• 2013-07-19, Ian Sample, Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, 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. He walks more in the morning these days.
3. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. from 10th c.
• 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XV:Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.
4. (used to form the comparative) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. from 13th c.
   You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 5, 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, Henry Petroski, Geothermal Energy, 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.
5. (now dialectal or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18th century.) from 13th c.
   No more than a disagreement from a friend.

Derived terms

• more or less
• more so
• less is more

From Middle English more, moore ("carrot, parsnip") from Old English more, moru ("carrot, parsnip") 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 morel.

Noun

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

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

Verb

1. (transitive) To root up.

Anagrams

• omer
• Rome