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• adjective
A greater or additional amount, number, or degree of something.
"The research team requested more time to complete the clinical trials."
• adverb
Used before an adjective or adverb to form the comparative degree, indicating a greater extent or intensity.
"This latest software update is significantly more reliable than the previous version."
To a greater extent, degree, or frequency.
"You should exercise more and spend less time sitting at a desk."
Again or once again; in addition to what has already occurred.
"Let us review the safety procedures once more before beginning the experiment."
• pronoun
A greater or additional amount or number of people or things.
"Only a few guests have arrived so far, but many more are expected this evening."
• noun
A greater or additional quantity, amount, or degree of something.
"There is always room for more when it comes to practical knowledge."
The traditional customs, social norms, and moral conventions considered fundamental to a particular group or society (used strictly in the plural form 'mores').
"Anthropologists spent years documenting the cultural mores of the isolated island community."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'māra' (greater, larger in amount or number), which served as the irregular comparative form of 'micel' (much, great) and descends from Proto-Germanic '*maizô'.