better part of
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.46 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
almost all of; most of
Example Sentences
- "It will take the better part of a century to develop this technology."
- "Alma, we quickly learn, is a hard-nosed pragmatist, even something of an academic crank, and she has no expectation of actually developing any real relationship with this handsome computer staying in her apartment for the better part of a month."