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BETTERMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does betterment mean?
• BETTERMENT (noun)
The noun BETTERMENT has 3 senses:
1. a change for the better; progress in development
2. an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
3. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
Familiarity information: BETTERMENT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A change for the better; progress in development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
advance; betterment; improvement
Hypernyms ("betterment" is a kind of...):
shift; transformation; transmutation (a qualitative change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "betterment"):
resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification (bringing again into activity and prominence)
elaboration; refinement (the result of improving something)
accommodation; adjustment; fitting (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)
conservation; preservation (an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change)
recovery (return to an original state)
Derivation:
better (get better)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("betterment" is a kind of...):
improvement; melioration (a condition superior to an earlier condition)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of relieving ills and changing for the better
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
amelioration; betterment; melioration
Hypernyms ("betterment" is a kind of...):
improvement (the act of improving something)
Derivation:
better (to make better)
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