What is the name meaning of BETTER. Phrases containing BETTER
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BETTER
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Translation of French Lemieux.English
Translation of French Lemieux.English : nickname from Old English bētere ‘fighter’, ‘beater’. Reaney suggests it may also be a short form of the various occupational names ending with -better, for example Leadbetter.German (Bavarian) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rosaries, from Bavarian better ‘rosary’ (from beten ‘to pray’).
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Arabic
Better; Best
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Irish and English
Irish and English : habitational name from Clare in Suffolk (probably named with a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright’, ‘gentle’, or ‘warm’). One of the first Normans in Ireland (1170–72) was Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, better known as ‘Strongbow’, who took his surname from his estate in Suffolk.English : habitational name from Clare in Oxfordshire, named with Old English clÇ£g ‘clay’ + Åra ‘slope’.English : from the Middle English, Old French female personal name Cla(i)re (Latin Clara, from clarus ‘famous’), which achieved some popularity, greater on the Continent than in England, through the fame of St. Clare of Assisi. See also Sinclair.English : occupational name for a worker in clay, for example someone expert in building in wattle and daub, from Middle English clayere, an agent derivative of Old English clÇ£g ‘clay’.
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Arabic, Muslim
Making Right; Making Good; Improvement; Betterment
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Christian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Sikh, Spanish, Tamil
New; Emotion; Better
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Muslim
Better
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English
English : patronymic from the personal name Clement.German, Dutch, and Danish : from the personal name Clemens (see Clement).Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was descended from VA stock on his father’s side, from a Robert Clemens, who was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1634.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Berkshire named Betterton, probably from an Old English personal name Bēthere + -ing- (implying association) + tūn ‘settlement’.
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English
English : reduced form of Betteridge.
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English
English : probably a variant of Betteley, from a place called Betley, of which there is one in Staffordshire and another in Sussex, the former being named from an Old English female personal name Bette + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Prosperity; Wife of Lord; Auspicious; Lucky; Better; The Best Forever; Goddess Lakshmi; Beautiful
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Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Better
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Indian
Pious, Better guided, Honest
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : probably ‘brother of someone called Fair’ or else a descriptive name for the better-looking of a pair of brothers.
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Indian
Better
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English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French
English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from any of various places named Malpas, because of the difficulty of the terrain, from Old French mal pas ‘bad passage’ (Latin malus passus). It is a common French minor place name, and places in Cheshire, Cornwall, Gwent, and elsewhere in England were given this name by Norman settlers. A place in Rousillon (southeastern France) that had this name in the 12th century was subsequently renamed Bonpas for the sake of a better omen.
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Beadurīc, composed of the elements beadu ‘battle’ + rīc ‘power’.
Girl/Female
British, Christian, English, Latin
Better
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American, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Pakistani, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Lucky; Excellent; Credit; To Give Credit to Someone; Auspicious; Better; The Best Forever; Goddess Lakshmi; Beautiful; Strong; Brave; Wisdom; Intelligence; Fortunate; Successful; Pure; Favourable
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Muslim
Pious, Better guided, Honest
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v.
To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
n.
The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
v. i.
To become better; to improve.
n.
The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
n.
Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
a.
Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
n.
An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
a.
Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence.
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More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
n.
The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.
imp. & p. p.
of Better
n.
A making better; amendment; improvement.
compar.
In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
compar.
More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
n.
A Burman measure of twelve miles. V () V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like English w) and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form (V) of the Greek vowel / (see Y), this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F (see F), or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic. Etymologically v is most nearly related to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc.
compar.
In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
v. t.
Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
a.
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Better
n.
A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.