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[ adverb ] comparing quantity or quality
Synonyms Examples "by the time she was 4 she was more than half her father's height" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)And the Jerebohms are more_than willing to buy it . More_than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire , Sancho_Panza , in seventeenth century Spain , this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)The remainder of the cast fulfilled its assignments no more_than satisfactorily just as the old production and limited stage_direction proved only serviceable . Earlier this month Edward_R._Murrow , director of the United_States_Information_Agency , came to Hollywood and had dinner with more_than 100 leaders of the motion_picture industry . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)To do this , it is sufficient to point_out that if the principle in_terms_of which alternatives are to be conceived is such_as to exclude more_than two , then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] greater in number relative to something else
Examples "more than one person stood up" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
Synonyms Examples "more land" "more support" "more rain fell" "more than a gallon" Related terms |
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