late 12c., "that which is better," from better (adj.). Specific meaning "one's superior" is from early 14c. To get the better of (someone) is from 1650s, from better in a sens [..]

Old English *beterian "improve, amend, make better," from Proto-Germanic *batizojan (source also of Old Frisian beteria, Dutch beteren, Old Norse betra, Old High German baziron, German besse [..]

Old English bettra, earlier betera, from Proto-Germanic *batizo-, from PIE *bhad- "good;" see best. Comparative adjective of good in the older Germanic languages (compare Old Frisian betera, [..]

comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; & [..]

more than good. The same word also means more clever or skilful than someone else

Also known as: meilleurs, besser, migliori, mejores, melhores

designed study could have given more definitive

(adj) (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another(adv) comparative of [..]

melior

My better half. A jocose way of saying my wife. As the twain are one, each is half. Horace calls his friend animæ dimidium meæ. (1 Odes iii. 8.)

, (1) adv. more. ‘He gave me better nor a dozen.’ (2) adj. well. ‘He’s not better, but he’s not so bad as he was yesterday.’ The moment a child is born, the mother is said to be better.