improver
/ɪmˈpɹuːvɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.07 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who improves his or her performance, one who shows improvement (of individuals or groups).
noun
A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff).
noun
One who performs improv; an improviser.
Example Sentences
- "He introduced and encouraged manufactures of all kinds; and no inventor or improver of any ingenious art did he suffer to go unrewarded."
- "Never did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances: those who were not handsome were, at least, happy; and happiness is a rare improver of your hard-favoured visage."
- "What a song. What an instant mood improver. It’ll make you forget all the tension you had built up […]"
- "[…] may not one say Homer is in this like a skilful Improver, who places a beautiful Statue in a well-disposed Garden so as to answer several Vistas, and by that Artifice one single Figure seems multiply’d into as many Objects as there are Openings from whence it may be viewed?"
- "He had been visiting a friend in a neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an improver, Mr. Rushworth was returned with his head full of the subject, and very eager to be improving his own place in the same way; […]"
- "The hotel can also arrange beginner and improver angling lessons with a local instructor."
Etymology
Etymology tree English improve Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English improver From improve + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪmˈpɹuːvɚ/
- British English: /ɪmˈpɹuːvə/