much
pronunciation
How to pronounce much in British English:
UK [mʌtʃ]
How to pronounce much in American English:
US [mʌtʃ]
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- Noun:
- a great amount or extent
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- Adjective:
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent
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- Adverb:
- to a great degree or extent
- very
- to a very great degree or extent
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
- frequently or in great quantities
Word Origin
- much
- much: [13] The Old English word for ‘much’ was mycel (a relative of Old Norse mikill, from which English got the now archaic mickle [13]). It goes back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as produced Latin magis ‘more’ (source of English master) and magnus ‘large’ (source of English magnitude) and Greek mégas ‘large’ (source of the English prefix mega-). Mycel became early Middle English muchel, which began to lose its second syllable in the 13th century.=> magnitude, master, more
- much (adj.)
- c. 1200, worn down by loss of unaccented last syllable from Middle English muchel "large, much," from Old English micel "great in amount or extent," from Proto-Germanic *mekilaz, from PIE *meg- "great" (see mickle). As a noun and an adverb, from c. 1200. For vowel evolution, see bury.
Antonym
Example
- 1. How much I didn 't know .
- 2. It was all so much easier before .
- 3. Sometimes it puts too much away .
- 4. They think they don 't have time , because they already spend so much time in other meetings .
- 5. When really ge is much more of an anomaly , historically .