no more
English
Adjective
- (idiomatic) not any more, no further
- 1972, Alice Cooper, School's Out
- No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
- 1972, Alice Cooper, School's Out
- (idiomatic) dead
- 1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch
- This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be!
- 1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch
Adverb
- (idiomatic) no longer, not any more
- 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More
- Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
- No more will he wander Lochaber again.
- 1817, Lord Byron
- So, we'll go no more a roving
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
- If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
- I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!
- 1973. Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born
- I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
- 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More
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Interjection
- Stop it! Don't continue!
- 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams
- The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.
- 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams
Noun
- (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent
- 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen
- So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
- 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse
- We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.
- 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen
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