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moreover

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//mɔːˈɹəʊ.və//
  • Canada//moɹˈoʊ.vɚ//
  • Australia//moːˈɹəʉ.və//
  • Australia//moːˈɹɐʉ.və//

In addition to what has been said.

adverb

  1. 1

    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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).