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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô; IPA: /mɔː/
• (General American) enPR: môr; IPA: /mɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr; IPA: /moʊɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /moə/
• (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA: /moʊ/
• Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (all three only in accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: maw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger (most of England, Australia, New Zealand, New York))
• Homophone: mow (non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern US))

Alternative forms

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

Determiner

more

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   • There are more ways to do this than I can count.
2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
   • There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
3. Additional; further.
   • If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
   • More people are arriving.
   • I want more soup.
   • I need more time.
4. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
   • He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.

Adverb

more

1. To a greater degree or extent.
   • I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
   • I could no more climb that than fly!
   • More advanced students.
   • I have more than carried out my obligation.
   • I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
2. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
   • You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
3. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
4. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
   • I was more better at English than you.

Pronoun

more

1. A greater number or quantity (of something).
   • We're running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
   • There isn't enough salt in this. You need to add more.
2. An extra or additional quantity (of something).
   • There aren't many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.

Adjective

more

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   • Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

Alternative forms

• moor (dialectal)

Noun

more (plural mores)

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To root up.

Anagrams

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

Interjection

more

1. man!, mate!, dude!, bro! (vocative particle used in a call to a man)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmo.re]

Adjective

more

1. dark blue Glossed as Polish szafirowe by Simon Kazanxhiu (ca. 1820).

Noun

more inan

1. purple

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmorɛ]

Noun

more

1. vocative singular of mor

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmoːʌ/

Verb

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

1. To amuse, entertain

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• moer, roem, Rome

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: mord, mords, mores, mors, mort, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)

Noun

more f (plural mores)

1. (phonology) mora

Adjective

more (plural mores)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

Anagrams

• orme, Rome

Noun

more f (plural moris)

1. mulberry

Noun

more f (plural moris)

1. (phonology) mora

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔ.re/
• Hyphenation: mò‧re

Noun

more f

1. plural of mora

Verb

more

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

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈmoː.re/, [ˈmoːrɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.re/, [ˈmɔːre]

Noun

mōre m

1. ablative singular of mōs (“manner, custom”)

Noun

more f (5 declension, masculine form: moris)

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

Noun

more

1. taproot

Alternative forms

• mare, moore

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔːr(ə)/

Determiner

more

1. more

Alternative forms

• moore, morre

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmoːr(ə)/, /ˈmɔːr(ə)/

Noun

more (plural mores or (early) moren)

1. root (of a plant)
   • Synonym: rote
2. (rare) root, (of a hair, tooth, or tongue)
3. (figuratively, rare) source, root

Verb

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

1. amuse, entertain

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmo.re/

Noun

more f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

Pronunciation

Verb

more

1. inflection of morar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA: /môːre/
• Hyphenation: mo‧re

Noun

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 provesti na moru. ― I will spend the entire summer at the shore.
3. (figurative) a vast expanse or quantity of something, usually detrimental or unwelcome
   • Ako se ne pozabavimo time sada, biti ćemo u moru nevolja!

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

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
2. (Serbia) when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf. bre

Interjection

more (Cyrillic spelling море)

1. (Croatia, Kajkavian, colloquial) Alternative form of može

Noun

more (Cyrillic spelling море)

1. inflection of mora:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

more (Cyrillic spelling море)

1. third-person plural present of moriti

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmore]

Noun

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, plenty (+genitive)
   • máme more času ― we have plenty of time

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmoɾe/ [ˈmo.ɾe]
• Syllabification: mo‧re

Verb

more

1. inflection of morar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

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

Noun

more

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

Mutation

Adjective

more

1. Alternative form of mo'