Meaning

8 senses
  1. (dialectal, intransitive)To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.

  2. (dialectal, transitive)To make good; turn to good; improve.

  3. (dialectal, intransitive)To make improvements or repairs.

  4. (dialectal, intransitive)To benefit; gain.

  5. (dialectal, transitive)To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.

  6. (dialectal, transitive)To satisfy; indulge; gratify.

  7. (dialectal, reflexive)To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

  8. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive)To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

Examples

44424 sentences
  1. Your bike is better than mine.

    Твій велосипед кращий за мій.

    ruТвой велик лучше моего.

    deDein Fahrrad ist besser als meins.

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  2. Your plan seems better than mine.

    Твій план здається кращим за мій.

    ruТвой план выглядит лучше моего.

    deIhr Plan scheint besser als meiner zu sein.

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  3. Your pen is better than mine.

    Твоя ручка краща, ніж моя.

    ruТвоя ручка лучше моей.

    deDein Stift ist besser als meiner.

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  4. You and I are good friends.

    Ми з тобою добрі друзі.

    ruТы и я - хорошие друзья.

    deDu und ich sind gute Freunde.

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  5. All of you did good work.

    Ви всі чудово попрацювали.

    ruВы все сделали хорошую работу.

    deJeder von euch hat gute Arbeit geleistet.

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get bet

Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favorable”).

From English dialectal, from Middle English *goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above.

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Forms

goods, gooding, gooded, gooded
Base formgood · to good
3rd person singulargoods
Present participlegooding
Past simplegooded
Past participlegooded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygood
he, she, itgoods

Past simpleLesson

all personsgooded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gooded
he, she, ithas gooded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill good

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgooding

Collocations

12 patterns
  • better better
  • better better than
  • best best
  • the best best
  • is a good
  • a very good
  • be better better
  • a good idea
  • have a good
  • a better better
  • much better better
  • good idea

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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