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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

更好

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gèng hǎo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Better/ˈbɛt.ər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个解决方案比之前的更好。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of a more excellent or effective type.

    "This solution is better than the previous one."
As adverb
  1. 1

    In a more excellent or effective manner.

    "She performed better than anyone expected."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'betera', meaning 'better', of Germanic origin and related to Old High German 'bezziro' and Gothic 'batiza'. It originates from a root meaning 'good' combined with a comparative suffix.

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