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Superior   /supˈɪriər/   Listen
Superior

adjective
1.
Of high or superior quality or performance.  "Superior math students"
2.
Of or characteristic of high rank or importance.
3.
(sometimes followed by 'to') not subject to or influenced by.  "Trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"
4.
Written or printed above and to one side of another character.  Synonym: superscript.
5.
Having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit.
6.
Having a higher rank.  Synonyms: higher-ranking, ranking.
7.
(often followed by 'to') above being affected or influenced by.  "An ignited firework proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades"
noun
1.
One of greater rank or station or quality.  Synonyms: higher-up, superordinate.
2.
The head of a religious community.
3.
A combatant who is able to defeat rivals.  Synonyms: master, victor.
4.
The largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes.  Synonym: Lake Superior.
5.
A town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth.
6.
A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character.  Synonym: superscript.



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"Superior" Quotes from Famous Books



... worth five dollars to you," she said gently, "why then I needn't hesitate to take as much for mine. They are superior." ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... mistress. I am a poor orphan, brought up here, having no other world than the convent. I have never seen any one to whom I can give the names of father or mother—my mother I believe to be dead, and my father is absent; I depend upon an invisible power, revealed only to our superior. This morning the good mother sent for me, and announced, with tears in her eyes, ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... by assuming that I appreciated the feelings of a man made of porcelain, and would choose for him only the most choice and fastidious companionship. But I must say that he seemed to me in no way superior, but rather quite inferior, to my own black soldiers, who equalled him in courage and in manners, and far surpassed him in loyalty, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various

... him slip in the night, and, when day came, was worsted by him, was anticipated in the moment of success, and mastered by his prisoner. If it is the part of a good general, not only to provide for the present, but also to have a clear foresight of things to come, in this point Pericles is the superior; for he admonished the Athenians, and told them beforehand the ruin the war would bring upon them, by their grasping more than they were able to manage. But Fabius was not so good a prophet, when he denounced to the Romans that ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... Judges or Tribunal de Batlles; Tribunal of the Courts or Tribunal de Corts; Supreme Court of Justice of Andorra or Tribunal Superior de Justicia d'Andorra; Supreme Council of Justice or Consell Superior de la Justicia; Fiscal Ministry or Ministeri Fiscal; ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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