Definition as Noun

• an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
• the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
• a change for the better; progress in development

Definition as Noun

• orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
• something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows

• amelioration, melioration

• improvement, advance

• advance, approach, feeler

• preliminary, prelude

• "she rejected his advances"

• "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"

• Betterment vs amelioration
• Betterment vs melioration
• Betterment vs improvement
• Betterment vs advance
• Betterment vs approach
• Betterment vs feeler
• Betterment vs preliminary
• Betterment vs prelude

• Overture vs amelioration
• Overture vs melioration
• Overture vs improvement
• Overture vs advance
• Overture vs approach
• Overture vs feeler
• Overture vs preliminary
• Overture vs prelude