IMPROVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does improver mean? 

• IMPROVER (noun)
  The noun IMPROVER has 2 senses:

1. someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

2. a component that is added to something to improve it

  Familiarity information: IMPROVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPROVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

do-gooder; humanitarian; improver

Hypernyms ("improver" is a kind of...):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Derivation:

improve (to make better)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A component that is added to something to improve it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

add-on; addition; improver

Context example:

the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor

Hypernyms ("improver" is a kind of...):

component; constituent; element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "improver"):

additive (something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine)

afterthought (an addition that was not included in the original plan)

annex; annexe; extension; wing (an addition that extends a main building)

attachment (a supplementary part or accessory)

elongation; extension (an addition to the length of something)

Derivation:

improve (to make better)

 Context examples 

You have been an improver yourself, and from what I hear of Everingham, it may vie with any place in England.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I do not wish to influence Mr. Rushworth, he continued; but, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Bertram, said Miss Crawford, a few minutes afterwards, you know Henry to be such a capital improver, that you cannot possibly engage in anything of the sort at Thornton Lacey without accepting his help.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had been visiting a friend in the neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an improver, Mr. Rushworth was returned with his head full of the subject, and very eager to be improving his own place in the same way; and though not saying much to the purpose, could talk of nothing else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)