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/mɔː(ɹ)/ · determiner

Meaning

comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.).

Definitions by Sense

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
3. Additional; further.
4. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
5. To a greater degree or extent.
6. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
7. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
8. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.

Example Sentences

There are more ways to do this than I can count.

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.

There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• mo
• mo'
• moar
• mores
• moor
• moring
• mored

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