Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Initialism of mesio-occlusal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Initialism of magnetooptical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Alternative form of mo' (“more”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
To a greater degree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Further, longer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Abbreviation of Missouri: a state of the United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Abbreviation of Philip Morris Companies, now Altria Group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: business, finance, stock-ticker-symbol
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Initialism of Modern Orthodox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, Moritz, or Mortimer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, Moira, or Monica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Clipping of Moët.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of modus operandi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of money order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: banking, business
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of medical officer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of molecular orbital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of moment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
Synonyms: bit, sec, tick, bat of an eye, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, New York minute, New York second, no time, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A homosexual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A moustache.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A molester.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A moron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
num
The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
symbol
month
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Missouri, Show Me State
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: American state
noun
a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: molybdenum, atomic number 42
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
noun
an indefinitely short time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: moment, minute, second, bit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time
Narrower terms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
History
From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh2-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.
Non-rhotic pronunciation of more. Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).
Transliteration of Chinese 莫 (mò).
Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.
Clipping of moustache.
Clipping.
From mil, by analogy with do and gro.
Clipping of month.
