more — English Dictionary

Determiner

1. Additional; further.

   Examples

   If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.

   More people are arriving.

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   I want more soup.

   I need more time.

2. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.

   Examples

   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

1. To a greater degree or extent.

   Examples

   I like cake, but I like chocolate more.

   I could no more climb that than fly!

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   More advanced students.

   I have more than carried out my obligation.

   I have no complaints and no more does my mom.

   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. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.

   Examples

   You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.

   I am much more eager to help than you.

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   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.

   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.

3. In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.

   Usage

   • Poetic

   Examples

   Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

4. Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.

   Usage

   • dialectal
   • Humorous
   • proscribed

   Examples

   I was more better at English than you.

Pronoun

1. A greater number or quantity (of something).

   Examples

   We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.

   There isn’t enough salt in this. You need to add more.

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   I'd love to see more of Bob and Linda.

2. An extra or additional quantity (of something).

   Examples

   There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.

   Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.

Noun

1. A carrot; a parsnip.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. A root; stock.

   Usage

   • dialectal

3. A plant; flower; shrub.

   Usage

   • dialectal

Verb

1. To root up.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Adjective

1. (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than

   Synonyms

   more than

   Antonyms

   less

   Examples

   more land

   more support

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   more rain fell

   more than a gallon

2. (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number

   Antonyms

   fewer

   Examples

   a hall with more seats

   we have no more bananas

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   more than one

Adverb

1. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something

   Synonyms

   to a greater extent

   Antonyms

   less

   Examples

   more interesting

   more beautiful

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   more quickly

2. comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent

   Antonyms

   less

   Examples

   he works more now

   they eat more than they should