better

adjective
bet·ter
/ˈbɛt.ə/

Greater in amount or quantity

Other meanings

Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
“The top electric vehicles have a range of 300 kilometres or better.”
Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
“We can't go to the zoo today because you're sick; let's go when you're all better.”

Example sentences

“No salt is better than too much.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“He said he was trying to get better.”
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“It was better before anything that happened after.”
Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Word history

From Old English "betera".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “better” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.