mejor
Meaning
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- (feminine,masculine) better
- (feminine,masculine) better off
- (feminine,masculine) improved
- (definite,feminine,masculine) best
- (definite,feminine,masculine) top, highest, finest (e.g. highest quality, highest bidder, top of one's class, in top form, finest food and wine, finest hotel, etc.)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
me‧jor
Pronounced as (IPA)
/meˈxoɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin melior, meliōrem (whence English ameliorate), from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”). Cognate with Portuguese melhor, Galician mellor, Catalan millor, French meilleur, Italian migliore.
Cognate with Portuguese
melhor
Cognate with Galician
mellor
Cognate with Catalan
millor
Cognate with French
meilleur
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