melioration
英 [,miːlɪə'reɪʃən]
美[,miljə'reʃən]
- n. 改善
英英释意
- 1. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- 2. a condition superior to an earlier condition;
- "the new school represents a great improvement"
- 3. the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning