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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː/
• (General American) enPR: môr, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr, IPA^(key): /ˈmo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmoə/
• (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (all three only in accents with the pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger); mow (non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger)

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”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).

• (informal or nonstandard) mo, mo'
• (Internet slang) moar

more

1. comparative degree 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 degree 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.

• fewer
• less

• more haste, less speed
• morefold
• moreness

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 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     , 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, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. [from 13^thc.; standard until 18^thc.]

   I was more better at English than you.

• more or less
• more so

more

1. A greater number of people or things.

more (uncountable)

1. An extra amount or extent.

• most

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.

more (plural mores)

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

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

more (third-person singular simple present mores, present participle moring, simple past and past participle mored)

1. (transitive) To root up.

• Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, omer

more

1. Alternative form of môre

• mor, ore

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(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

more

1. vocative particle used in a call to a man.

Can be placed before or after the noun, whereas bre can only be placed after.

• moj

more

1. purple

more

1. vocative singular of mor

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

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

1. To amuse, entertain

• morskab c
• morsom
• morsomhed c

From Latin mora.

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

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

• moer, roem, Rome

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/

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• Homophones: maure, maures, mores

more f (plural mores)

1. (phonology) mora

more (plural mores)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

• More m

• orme
• Rome

• “more” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

more f

1. plural of mora

more

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

• muore

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

mōre

1. ablative singular of mōs

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

more f (5 declension, masculine form: moris)

1. (archaic) black woman, blackamoor, black moor

more

1. taproot

• tāmore

more (present tense morer, past tense mora or moret, past participle mora or moret)

1. amuse, entertain

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmore/

more f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

• moru

• Middle English more
• English more

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

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

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

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

mȏre n (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)

1. sea
2. (by extension, preceded by preposition na) seaside or shore (any area or place near the sea where the sea is seen as the defining feature)

   Čim dođe ljeto, idemo na more! ― Once the summer is here, we're gonna go to the seaside!

   Cijelo ljeto ću provest na moru. ― I will spend the entire summer at the shore.

3. (figuratively) a vast expanse or quantity of something, usually detrimental or unwelcome

   Ako se ne pozabavimo time sada, bit ćemo u moru nevolja!

   If we do not deal with that now, we will be in a sea of troubles!

• (Croatia, archaic) morje

• mòrskī

• Category:sh:Seas

From Greek μωρέ (moré).

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

More is most often used in addressing a single male, more rarely when addressing groups of males, and more rarely still when addressing females.

• bre

• Tomislav Maretić (editor) (1911), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 7, JAZU: Zagreb

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɛ/

more n (genitive singular mora, nominative plural moria, genitive plural morí, 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

• more in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾe/

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.

• (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɛ/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːrɛ/, /ˈmɔrɛ/

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