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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reformer has 2 senses
- reformer(n = noun.person) crusader, meliorist, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform; Array is a kind of controversialist, disputant, eristic
- reformer(n = noun.artifact) Array - an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer" is a kind of apparatus, setup
has particulars: abolitionist, emancipationist, birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer, chartist, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, demonstrator, protester, dry, prohibitionist, conservationist, environmentalist, feminist, libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist, flower child, hippie, hippy, hipster, freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel, activist, militant, non-resistant, passive resister, preservationist, utopian, anthony comstock, comstock, dix, dorothea dix, dorothea lynde dix, hus, huss, jan hus, john huss, owen, robert owen, girolamo savonarola, savonarola, francis everett townsend, townsend, john wilkes, wilkes
Derived form verb reform1
is a part of oil refinery, petroleum refinery
Derived form verb reform4
CIDE DICTIONARY
reformer, n.
- One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses. [1913 Webster]
- One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reformer, n. a person who advocates or brings about (esp. political or social) reform.
THESAURUS
reformer
Fabian, Tammany man, extremist, machine politician, meliorist, old campaigner, party boss, party chieftain, party leader, pol, political hack, political leader, politician, professional politician, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, radical, reform politician, reformist, revisionist, revolutionary, utopian, utopist, war-horse, wheelhorseROGET THESAURUS
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Improvement
N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.
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