superior

• superiour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Old French superior, from Latin superior (“higher, being more above”), from superus (“being above”), from super (“above, over”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /suːˈpɪəɹi.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /suːˈpɪɹiɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəriə(r)

superior (not comparable)

1. Higher in quality.

   Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.

2. Higher in rank.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

3. More comprehensive, as a term in classification.

   A genus is superior to a species.

4. Located above.

   the superior jaw; the superior part of an image

   1. (botany) 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; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
   2. (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
   3. (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
   4. (typography) Printed in superscript.

      a superior figure or letter

5. Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
6. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
   • Spectator

     There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

7. Of a planet: closer to the Earth than to the sun.

• Superior and inferior are generally followed by to; than is sometimes used mistakenly.

• inferior

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

• superiorness

• superiority

superior (plural superiors)

1. A person of higher rank or quality.
2. The senior person in a monastic community.

• (a person of higher rank): overling

• father superior
• mother superior

• superior in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• superior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• superior at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from Latin superior.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /su.pə.ɾiˈo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /su.pe.ɾiˈoɾ/

superior (masculine and feminine plural superiors)

1. superior, higher, high

• inferior

• superioritat

superior m or f (plural superiors)

1. superior

From super (“above, over”).

superior (neuter superius); third declension

1. higher
2. superior
3. previous, preceding

Third declension, comparative variant

• superior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• superior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• superior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • heights, high ground: loca edita, superiora
    
  • last year: superiore, priore anno
    
  • premises; consequences: prima (superiora); consequentia (Fin. 4. 19. 54)
    
  • in his former consulship: superiore consulatu
    
  • to gain a weak case by clever pleading: causam inferiorem dicendo reddere superiorem (λόγον κρείττω ποιειν) (Brut. 8. 30)
    
  • to occupy the high ground: occupare loca superiora
    
  • to have the advantage in cavalry: equitatu superiorem esse
    
  • to come off victorious: superiorem (opp. inferiorem), victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere
    

Borrowed from Latin superior.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /su.pɨˈɾjoɾ/
• Hyphenation: su‧pe‧ri‧or

superior m or f (plural superiores, comparable)

1. upper, higher
2. better
3. superior

• inferior

• superioridade

superior m (plural superiores, feminine superiora, feminine plural superioras)

1. boss
2. head of a monastery

Borrowed from French supérieur, Latin superior.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsu.pe.riˈor/

superior m or n (feminine singular superioară, masculine plural superiori, feminine and neuter plural superioare)

1. superior

• inferior

• superioritate

Borrowed from Latin superior.

• IPA^(key): /supeˈɾjoɾ/

superior (plural superiores)

1. upper, higher
2. better
3. superior

• anterosuperior
• posterosuperior

superior m (plural superiores, feminine superiora, feminine plural superioras)

1. boss

• jefe, jefa
• patrón, patrona

• superioridad

• “superior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.