Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Melioration \Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.]
The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being
meliorated; improvement. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
melioration
n 1: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn:
{amelioration}, {melioration}, {betterment}]
2: a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school
represents a great improvement" [syn: {improvement},
{melioration}] [ant: {declination}, {decline}]
3: the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word
grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in
meaning
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
