'More' definitions:

Definition of 'more'

From: WordNet
adverb
Used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly" [syn: more, to a greater extent] [ant: less, to a lesser extent]
adverb
Comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should" [ant: less]
adjective
(comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon" [syn: more(a), more than] [ant: less(a)]
adjective
(comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number; "a hall with more seats"; "we have no more bananas"; "more than one" [ant: fewer]
noun
English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state [syn: More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More]

Definition of 'More'

From: GCIDE
  • More \More\, n.
  • 1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with. [1913 Webster]
  • And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount. [1913 Webster]
  • They that would have more and more can never have enough. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
  • O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.
  • No more, not anything more; nothing in addition.
  • The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] --Shak. "All cried, both less and more." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

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  • More \More\, adv.
  • 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle. [1913 Webster]
  • Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. [1913 Webster]
  • Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. [1913 Webster]
  • The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In addition; further; besides; again. [1913 Webster]
  • Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • More and more, with continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more." --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.
  • The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.
  • The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. "The more he praised it in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him." --Milton.
  • To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more. [1913 Webster]
  • Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

From: GCIDE
  • More \More\, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

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  • More \More\ (m[=o]r), n. [AS. m[=o]r. See Moor a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

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  • More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

From: GCIDE
  • More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most (m[=o]st).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[=a]; akin to D. meer, OS. m[=e]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[=e]ro, m[=e]r, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. [root]103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.]
  • 1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. [1913 Webster]
  • He gat more money. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • If we procure not to ourselves more woe. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more. [1913 Webster]
  • Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. --Acts xix. 32. [1913 Webster]
  • Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. --Ex. i. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. [1913 Webster]
  • With open arms received one poet more. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'More'

From: GCIDE
  • Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by More (m[=o]r), and Most (m[=o]st), from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. me`gas, fem. mega`lh, great, and Icel. mj["o]k, adv., much. [root]103. See Mickle.]
  • 1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. --Deut. xxviii. 38. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Many in number. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
  • Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'more'

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