Better vs Gooden - What's the difference?
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larger, greater
* 1901 , ,
More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
To improve.
* Wordsworth
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To become better; to improve.
To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
* Hooker
To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
* Milton
(slang) Had better.
An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
* Hooker
To make good; improve; better; perfect.
*2009 , Helen Malson, Maree Burns, Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders :
*2010 , Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia :
To become good.
To grow; improve; prosper.
(dialectal) To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on .
*1871 , Henry Martin, The history of Brighton and environs :
*1910 , Peter Hampson Ditchfield, Vanishing England: the book :
In lang=en terms the difference between better and gooden
is that better is to give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of while gooden is to become good.As verbs the difference between better and gooden
is that better is to improve while gooden is to make good; improve; better; perfect or gooden can be (dialectal) to perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before christmas-time, usually on.As an adjective better
is (good).As an adverb better
is .As a noun better
is an entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior or better can be .better
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) better, bettre, betre, from (etyl) .Adjective
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Derived terms
* better dead than red * better half * better off * betterness * better part of * get betterAdverb
(head)- “I’ve had enough of cycling with you chaps. I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.”
- ten miles and better
Derived terms
* had better * 'd betterVerb
(en verb)- Love betters what is best.
- He thought to better his circumstances.
- the constant effort of every man to better himself
- (Carlyle)
- The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered .
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
- You better do that if you know what's good for you.
Derived terms
* betterer * bettermentSynonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.
- Their betters would hardly be found.
Derived terms
* get the better ofEtymology 2
Alternate pronunciation of (bettor) or modern formation from the verb to (bet).Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----gooden
English
Etymology 1
From . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- For many years we have endeavored to comprehend how a/b could transform highly intelligent and in many respects 'model' girls and women (and sometimes boys and men) into unwitting bystanders and accomplices to their own torture and impending death while remaining convinced that they are being perfected and goodened ?
- The passive voice is all-pervasive. This is a world in which virtue is achieved by not doing things, only thus, like Jesus (Wright tells us) may we “be Goodened with Good.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Back-formation from goodening, an alteration of .Verb
(en verb)- Phoebe, in support of a good old Sussex custom, regularly, on St. Thomas's Day, December 21st, went out "Goodening ," visiting well-to-do parishioners, to gossip upon the past, over hot elderberry wine and plum cake, and to receive doles, either in money or materials, [...]
- In 1899 the oldest dame who took part in the ceremony was aged ninety-three, while in 1904 a widow "goodened " for the thirtieth year in succession.