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Definition of Improver
1. Noun. Someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms.
Generic synonyms: Benefactor, Helper
Derivative terms: Do Good, Improve
2. Noun. A component that is added to something to improve it. "The addition of cinnamon improved the flavor"
Specialized synonyms: Additive, Afterthought, Annex, Annexe, Extension, Wing, Attachment, Elongation, Extension
Generic synonyms: Component, Constituent, Element
Derivative terms: Add On, Add, Improve
Definition of Improver
1. n. One who, or that which, improves.
Definition of Improver
1. Noun. Something that, or someone who, improves ¹
2. Noun. A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Improver
1. one that improves [n -S] - See also: improves
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improver
Literary usage of Improver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"More delicate scales ought to be available to the innocent improver. ... In cases
of enormous increase we have seen that the improver may, according to some ..."
2. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"This 5 equivalent to the later conjunction 5™ would fall an easy victim to the
improver. See Л 101 (Note). ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Sowing the sandy gravelly land in Devonshire and Cornwal 'vith French furie seed,
they reckon a great improver of their land, and t filter of ii for corn. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He is also known as an inventor and improver of astronomical instruments.
He wrote 'Paris as a Seaport'; 'Notes on Soundings of the Sea'; CA Hydrographic ..."
5. English Farming, Past and Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1912)
"... East Midland and North Eastern group of counties : improved methods and
increased resources of farming; Jethro Tull the " greatest individual improver " ..."
6. Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful by Uvedale Price (1810)
"The improver particularly, without the ... to con- fider objects as an improver,
that at laft he could only copy the little beeches he had planted. ..."
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