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Middle English muche, moche, apocopated variants of muchel, mochel, from Old English mycel (large, great in amount or extent); akin to Middle English miche(l), Old English micel (great, much) (cf. mickle ), c. ON mikill, Goth mikils

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much (comparative more, superlative most)

  1. To a great extent.
    I don't like fish much.
    He is much fatter than I remember him.
  2. Often; frequently.
    Does he get drunk much?

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much (comparative more, superlative most)

  1. A large amount of.
    I don't have much money.

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  • Much is used with uncountable nouns. The equivalent used with countable nouns is many.
  • Unlike many determiners, much is frequently modified by intensifying adverbs, as in “too much”, “very much”, “so much”, “not much”, and so on. (The same is true of many.)

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much

  1. A large amount or great extent.
    From those to whom much has been given much is expected.

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much

  1. Genitive plural of mucha.