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www.dictionary.com contained 14 "other" definitions of "better",
here's one from Websters, I'll leave you to read the rest of them.
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better \Bet"ter\, adv.; compar. of Well. 1. In a superior or more excellent
manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success;
as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
I could have better spared a better man. --Shak.
2. More correctly or thoroughly.
The better to understand the extent of our knowledge. --Locke.
3. In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
Never was monarch better feared, and loved. --Shak.
4. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and
better. [Colloq.]
To think better of (any one), to have a more favourable opinion of any one.
To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter
one's decision.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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