Moreover Meaning
/mɔːˈɹəʊ.və/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn addition to what has been said.
Sentence Examples
The house looked good; moreover, the price was right.
It was cold that day, and moreover it began to rain.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The job pays very well; ____, it also offers great health benefits.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new laptop is very powerful ____, it is much lighter and easier to carry than the previous model I used for work.
Word Origin & History
Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war."
— 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61:
"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."
— 1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle:
"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."
— 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The job pays very well; ____, it also offers great health benefits.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new laptop is very powerful ____, it is much lighter and easier to carry than the previous model I used for work.