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adjective, comparative of much or many, with most as superlative.
  1. in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: I need more money.
  2. additional or further: Do you need more time? More discussion seems pointless.
noun
  1. an additional quantity, amount, or number: I would give you more if I had it. He likes her all the more. When I could take no more of such nonsense, I left.
  2. a greater quantity, amount, or degree: More is expected of him. The price is more than I thought.
  3. something of greater importance: His report is more than a survey.
  4. a greater number of a class specified, or the greater number of persons: More will attend this year than ever before.
adverb, comparative of much, with most as superlative.
  1. in or to a greater extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more than two syllables, to form comparative phrases having the same force and effect as the comparative degree formed by the termination -er): more interesting; more slowly.
  2. in addition; further; longer; again: Let's talk more another time. We couldn't stand it any more.
  3. moreover.
Idioms
  1. to an increasing extent or degree; gradually more: They became involved more and more in stock speculation.
  2. more or less,
    • to some extent; somewhat: She seemed more or less familiar with the subject.
    • about; approximately; in substance: We came to more or less the same conclusion.
noun
  1. English writer on religious subjects.
  2. U.S. essayist, critic, and editor.
  3. English humanist, statesman, and author: canonized in 1935.
noun
  1. Mossi (def. 2).
determiner
    • the comparative of much, many more joy than you know; more pork sausages
    • (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural)
    • additional; further
    • (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural)
  1. to a greater extent or degree
adverb
  1. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
  2. the comparative of much people listen to the radio more now
  3. additionally; again
  4. more or less
    • as an estimate; approximately
    • to an unspecified extent or degree
  5. to a greater extent or degree
  6. simply
  7. to have a higher opinion of
  8. moreover
noun
  1. Hannah. 1745–1833, English writer, noted for her religious tracts, esp The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
  2. Sir Thomas . 1478–1535, English statesman, humanist, and Roman Catholic Saint; Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII (1529–32). His opposition to the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and his refusal to recognize the Act of Supremacy resulted in his execution on a charge of treason. In Utopia (1516) he set forth his concept of the ideal state. Feast day: June 22 or July 6
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