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 

• BETTERMENT (noun)

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)