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English
Etymology
From Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.
Pronunciation
Adverb
moreover (not comparable)
- (conjunctive) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.
1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 61:For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle: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.
1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is: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.
Synonyms
Translations
in addition to what has been said
- Arabic: عِلَاوَة عَلَى ذٰلِكَ (ʕilāwa ʕalā ḏālika), أَضِف إِلَى ذٰلِك (ʔaḍif ʔilā ḏālik)
- Azerbaijani: və üstəlik, və bundan əlavə, əlavə olaraq
- Bulgarian: освен това (osven tova)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 並且/并且 (zh) (bìngqiě), 而且 (zh) (érqiě), 還有/还有 (zh) (háiyǒu), 況且/况且 (zh) (kuàngqiě)
- Czech: nadto (cs)
- Dena'ina: ki
- Dutch: bovendien (nl), daarnaast (nl), verder (nl), daar komt bij
- Esperanto: cetere (eo)
- Finnish: sen lisäksi, lisäksi (fi)
- French: de plus (fr), en plus (fr), au surplus (fr), en outre (fr), de surcroît (fr), par surcroît (fr), par ailleurs (fr), d’ailleurs (fr), d’un autre côté (fr), d’autre part (fr), au reste (fr), du reste (fr), pour le reste, au demeurant (fr), aussi (fr), qui plus est (fr)
- German: außerdem (de), überdies (de), des Weiteren (de), obendrein (de)
- Greek: επιπλέον (el) (epipléon)
- Hungarian: sőt (hu) azonkívül (hu)
- Icelandic: einnig (is), þar á ofan, þar að auki (is)
- Italian: inoltre (it)
- Japanese: その上に (そのうえに, sono ue ni), さらに (ja) (sara ni), しかも (ja) (shikamo)
- Korean: 게다가 (ko) (gedaga), 더욱이 (ko) (deougi), 뿐만 아니라 (ppunman anira)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ya baştir
- Latin: autem (la), amplius (la)
- Lithuanian: be to
- Malay: lagipun
- Maori: waihoki, whaihoki
- Occitan: de mai
- Persian: به علاوه (be 'alâve), علاوه بر این ('alâve bar in), افزون بر این (afzun bar in)
- Polish: ponadto (pl), skądinąd (pl)
- Portuguese: ademais (pt), além disso (pt), demais (pt)
- Russian: кро́ме того́ (ru) (króme tovó), бо́лее того́ (bóleje tovó)
- Serbo-Croatian: štoviše (sh), štaviše
- Slovak: navyše, naviac, tiež
- Spanish: además (es), adicionalmente, otrosí (es) (law)
- Swedish: dessutom (sv), för övrigt (sv), tillika (sv)
- Telugu: పైగా (te) (paigā), పైపెచ్చు (te) (paipeccu)
- Tocharian B: ṣpak
- Turkish: buna ilaveten, dahası (tr)
- Ukrainian: до то́го ж (do tóho ž)
- Walloon: avou ça ki (wa), minme ki dpus (wa), al copete do martchî (wa)
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References
- “moreover”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “moreover”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "moreover" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
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