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better

English

🔊 (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability
“You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din”
🔊 (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness
“her health is better now”
🔊 more than half
“argued for the better part of an hour”
🔊 something superior in quality or condition or effect
“a change for the better”
🔊 the superior one of two alternatives
“chose the better of the two”
🔊 a superior person having claim to precedence
“the common man has been kept in his place by his betters”
🔊 someone who bets
🔊 comparative of `well'
“She had never sung better”
🔊 from a position of superiority or authority
“father knows best”
🔊 get better
“The weather improved toward evening”
🔊 to make better
“The editor improved the manuscript with his changes”
🔊 surpass in excellence
“She bettered her own record”