Meaning

3 senses

  1. (dialectal)A root; stock.

  2. (dialectal)A plant; flower; shrub.

  3. (obsolete)A carrot; a parsnip.

More definitions
  • 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

Examples

21931 sentences

  1. I want to be more independent.

    Я хочу бути більш незалежним. — deniko

    ruЯ хочу быть более независимым. — paul_lingvo

    deIch will unabhängiger sein. — MUIRIEL

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  2. It's more difficult than you think.

    Це важче, ніж ти думаєш. — aandrusiak

    ruЭто труднее, чем ты думаешь. — shanghainese

    deEs ist schwieriger, als du glaubst. — MUIRIEL

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  3. I wish we had more time.

    Я хотів би, щоб у нас було більше часу. — deniko

    ruХотел бы я, чтобы у нас было больше времени. — Gruzilkin

    deIch wünschte, wir hätten mehr Zeit. — MUIRIEL

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  4. I wish I earned more money.

    Я б хотів заробляти більше. — deniko

    ruЯ бы хотел больше зарабатывать. — marafon

    deSchön wär’s, wenn ich mehr Geld verdiente. — raggione

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  5. Take things a little more seriously.

    Сприймай речі трохи серйозніше. — deniko

    ruВоспринимай вещи немного серьёзнее. — Lenin_1917

    deNimm die Dinge etwas ernster. — Espi

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Origin

From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”)

From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“edible herb, tuber”).

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Forms

plural: mores

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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:Thomas MoreSir Thomas More

Collocations

12 patterns
  • more time
  • any more
  • a little more
  • a lot more
  • more days days
  • be more careful
  • a few more
  • more money
  • spend more time
  • more than three
  • more careful
  • little more

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
morassmoratoriummoraymorbidmoreishmoreoverB1morganmorgue

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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