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[edit] English
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- (UK) enPR: mô, IPA: /mɔː(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /mO:(\r)/
- (US) enPR: môr, IPA: /moʊɹ/, /mɔɹ/, SAMPA: /mOr\/
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
- Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore
[edit] Determiner
more
- Comparative form of many: more many., in greater number. (for a discrete quantity)
- More people are arriving.
- There are more ways to do this than I can count.
- Comparative form of much: more much., in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (for a continuous quantity)
- I want more soup.
- There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
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[edit] Adverb
more
- Comparative form of much: more much.; further, in addition, longer
- He walks more in the morning.
- Used in forming the comparative form of many adjectives and almost all comparable adverbs.
- more beautiful; more beautifully
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[edit] Noun
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more (uncountable)
- An increased amount or quantity.
- If we can sell more, we will turn this business into a success.
- When it comes to parties, the more, the merrier.
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[edit] Danish
[edit] Etymology
Derived from moro (“‘fun’”), which may be a compound of mod, from Old Norse móðr (“‘mind’”) and ro, from Old Norse ró (“‘rest’”).
[edit] Verb
more (imperative mor, infinitive at more, present tense morer, past tense morede, past participle har moret)
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[edit] Dutch
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[edit] Noun
more (plural moren, diminutive moretje, diminutive plural moretjes) m. and f.
- The unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre
[edit] French
[edit] Adjective
more (f. moree, m. plural mores, f. plural morees)
- alternative spelling of maure 'Moorish'
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- More m.
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more f.
- Plural form of mora.
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more
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[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Verb
more (present tense morer; past tense mora/moret; past participle mora/moret; present participle morende; imperative mor)
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *more, *morě, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[edit] Noun
mȏre n. (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ре)
[edit] Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | more | mora |
| genitive | mora | mora |
| dative | moru | morima |
| accusative | more | mora |
| vocative | more | mora |
| locative | moru | morima |
| instrumental | morem | morima |
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[edit] Slovak
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *more, *morě, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
[edit] Noun
more n. (declension pattern srdce, plural moria, stem mor, genitive singular mora, genitive plural morí)
- A body of salt water, sea.
- (colloquial) A huge amount, a plenty (+genitive)
- máme more času – we have plenty of time