superior
IPA: supˈɪriɝ
noun
- A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- (Scotland, law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- A town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.
- A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana, United States.
- A tiny city and village in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States.
- A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana, United States.
- A small city and town in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States.
- A city, village, and civil town in Wisconsin, United States. The city is the county seat of Douglas County.
- Synonym of Superia
- Ellipsis of Lake Superior. [A lake in North America; the largest of the Great Lakes and second largest lake in the world by area. It is located higher than Lake Huron, hence the name.]
- Ellipsis of Superior Craton.
adjective
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- Of high standard or quality.
- Greater in size or power.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy) (of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.
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Examples of "superior" in Sentences
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- If their superior is a woman, a significant number tend to try to end-run or sabotage the female boss.
- He urged him and he took it -- In the East the acceptance by a superior is a proof of friendship, and by an enemy, of reconciliation.
- In mammals, where the term superior colliculus is generally used instead of optic tectum, this area is called the parabigeminal nucleus.
- Let's remember why: All of this started because Clinton is trying to campaign on what she describes as superior foreign policy experience.
- After all, the failure of a military man or woman to carry out a lawful order given to them by a superior is a federal crime punishible by fine, imprisonment or even death.
- Fed up with what he described as his superior's fondness for golf, he began training a paramilitary force for the opposition Red Shirts that the army branded as "terrorists" and opened a direct line of communication to ousted populist leader Thaksin Shinawatra, whom the army removed in a coup four years ago.
- Perhaps it was because he wished it to be known that he considered himself the equal of any Tartar ruler; perhaps because he desired to have a title superior to that of the nobles who descended from former grand dukes, and who inherited the rank without the power; at any rate Ivan IV was crowned as the first Czar.
- It encouraged the adherents of this house to attribute to it an almost regal dignity, and to intimate more and more plainly its claim upon the throne of France, as descended through the Dukes of Lorraine from Charlemagne -- a title superior to that of the Valois, who could trace their origin to no higher source than the usurper Hugh Capet.
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