moreover

English

Etymology

more +‎ over

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔɹˈoʊvɚ/
• IPA^(key): /mɔːˈɹəʊvə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: more‧over

Adverb

moreover (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.
   • 1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle:

     The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.

   • 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:

     A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.

Synonyms

• du reste
• furthermore
• further

Translations

in addition to what has been said

• Arabic: عِلَاوَة عَلَى ذٰلِكَ (ʿilāwa ʿalā ḏālika), أَضِف إِلَى ذٰلِك (ʔaḍif ʔilā ḏālik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 並且／并且 (zh) (bìngqiě), 并且 (zh) (bìngqiě), 而且 (zh) (érqiě), 還有／还有 (zh) (háiyǒu), 还有 (zh) (háiyǒu), 況且／况且 (zh) (kuàngqiě), 况且 (zh) (kuàngqiě)

• Czech: nadto (cs)
• Dena'ina: ki
• Dutch: bovendien (nl), daarnaast (nl), verder (nl), daar komt bij
• Esperanto: cetere (eo)
• Finnish: sen lisäksi, lisäksi (fi)
• French: de plus (fr), en plus (fr), au surplus (fr), en outre (fr), de surcroît (fr), par surcroît (fr), par ailleurs (fr), d’ailleurs (fr), d’un autre côté (fr), d’autre part (fr), au reste (fr), du reste (fr), pour le reste, au demeurant (fr), aussi (fr), qui plus est (fr)
• German: außerdem (de), überdies (de), des Weiteren (de)
• Hungarian: sőt (hu) azonkívül (hu)
• Icelandic: einnig (is), þar á ofan, þar að auki (is)
• Italian: inoltre (it)
• Japanese: その上に (そのうえに, sono ue ni), さらに (ja) (sara ni), しかも (ja) (shikamo)
• Korean: 게다가 (ko) (gedaga), 더욱이 (ko) (deougi), 뿐만 아니라 (ppunman anira)
• Kurdish:
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• Latin: autem (la), amplius (la)
• Lithuanian: be to
• Malay: lagipun
• Maori: waihoki, whaihoki
• Occitan: de mai
• Persian: به علاوه (be alâve), علاوه بر این (alâve bar in), افزون بر این (afzun bar in)
• Polish: ponadto (pl)
• Portuguese: demais (pt), além disso (pt)
• Russian: кро́ме того́ (ru) (króme tovó), бо́лее того́ (bóleje tovó)
• Serbo-Croatian: štoviše (sh)
• Slovak: navyše, naviac, tiež
• Spanish: además (es), adicionalmente, otrosí (law)
• Swedish: dessutom (sv), för övrigt (sv), tillika (sv)
• Telugu: పైగా (te) (paigā), పైపెచ్చు (te) (paipeccu)
• Walloon: avou ça ki (wa), minme ki dpus (wa), al copete do martchî (wa)

References

• “moreover”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “moreover”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "moreover" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• overmore