better'n

contraction

better than

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contraction
  1. contractionbetter than

    You’ve been mighty good to me, boys—better’n anybody else in this town.

    1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 183
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better'n. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/better'n

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “better'n,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/better'n.

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