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say it: mawr
more is an adjective, adverb and noun meaning "(comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree". It carries 5 recorded senses.
(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”
comparative
used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
“more interesting”
“more beautiful”
“more quickly”
comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
“he works more now”
“they eat more than they should”
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for more come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.