comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
Additional; further.
If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
To a greater degree or extent.
I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
A greater number or quantity (of something).
We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
An extra or additional quantity (of something).
There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.
comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.
Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.
A carrot; a parsnip.
A root; stock.
singular of mores
In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.
The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
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”)...
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In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.