"improvement" meaning in English

See improvement in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɪmˈpruːvmənt/ Audio: en-us-improvement.ogg [US] Forms: improvement [singular], improvements [plural]
Etymology: improve + -ment Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|improve|ment}} improve + -ment Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. An improvement makes something better; it improves something.
    Sense id: simple-improvement-en-noun-WNQhogiH
  2. Improvement is the state of being improved or bettered.
    Sense id: simple-improvement-en-noun-bHElguw9
  3. An improvement is an increase, advance, or growth.
    Sense id: simple-improvement-en-noun-NnBivLj2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ment
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -ment",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "improve",
        "2": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "improve + -ment",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "improve + -ment",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "improvement",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improvements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "im‧prove‧ment",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The improvement of this entry was well done."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An improvement makes something better; it improves something."
      ],
      "id": "simple-improvement-en-noun-WNQhogiH",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Improvement is the state of being improved or bettered."
      ],
      "id": "simple-improvement-en-noun-bHElguw9",
      "raw_tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "An improvement is an increase, advance, or growth."
      ],
      "id": "simple-improvement-en-noun-NnBivLj2",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpruːvmənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-improvement.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "improvement"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -ment"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "improve",
        "2": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "improve + -ment",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "improve + -ment",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "improvement",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improvements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "im‧prove‧ment",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The improvement of this entry was well done."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An improvement makes something better; it improves something."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Improvement is the state of being improved or bettered."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An improvement is an increase, advance, or growth."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪmˈpruːvmənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-improvement.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "improvement"
}

Download raw JSONL data for improvement meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.