Meliora
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{{#invoke:Lang|lang}} is a Latin adjective meaning "better". It is the neuter plural (nominative or accusative) form of the adjective {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.
It may be used in the accusative and substantively (i.e., as a noun) to mean "better things", "always better", "ever better", or, more fully, "for the pursuit of the better".
Meliora is the motto<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> of University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, voted for by the faculty in 1851 and translated as "ever better" or "always better".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>