moreover
Valid in Scrabble
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- 13
- Words With Friends
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/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/
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/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/ · /moɹˈoʊ.vɚ/ · /moːˈɹəʉ.və/ · /moːˈɹɐʉ.və/
Definition of moreover
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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(conjunctive, not-comparable)In addition to what has been said.
“For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.”
“The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.”
“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.
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