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
- The Romans were superior to the Greeks.
- Note the superior position of the character.
- The difference was the superior distribution.
- They proclaim the superiority of the Nordic race.
- It showed the superiority of the team at that time.
- Heterosexism is the belief in heterosexual superiority.
- The conclusion is the Buddhism is the superior philosophy.
- He's a seamless conversationalist, a superior communicator.
- His apprehension of the numerical superiority of the Gurkhas.
- These are of an excellent workmanship superior to that of the frieze.