1. Higher than another in rank, station, or authority: a superior officer.2. Of a higher nature or kind. 3. Of great value or excellence; extraordinary. 4. Greater in number or amount than another: an army defeated by superior numbers of enemy troops.5. Affecting an attitude of disdain or conceit; haughty and supercilious. 6. Above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune: “Trust magnates were superior to law” (Gustavus Myers). 7. Located higher than another; upper. 8.Botany Inserted or situated above the perianth. Used of an ovary. 9.Printing Set above the main line of type. 10.Logic Of wider or more comprehensive application; generic. Used of a term or proposition.
NOUN:
1. One that surpasses another in rank or quality. 2.Ecclesiastical The head of a religious community, such as a monastery, abbey, or convent. 3.Printing A superior character, as the number 2 in x2.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, comparative of superus, upper, from super, over. See uper in Appendix I.
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