more
/ˈmɔɹ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.36 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
det
adv
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
adv
In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
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."
Etymology
From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, 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”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /moː/
- British English: /mɔː/