superior

adj

Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

1. Higher in rank, status, or quality.

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

   “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.”

2. Higher in rank, status, or quality.

   “She always treated (her husband) as a boy, which he was, and as a fool, which he was not, thinking herself so immeasurably superior to him that she neglected opportunity after opportunity of establishing her rule.”

3. Higher in rank, status, or quality.
4. Higher in rank, status, or quality.

   “There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy […]than a brave man superior to his sufferings.”

5. Higher in rank, status, or quality.
6. Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
7. Printed in superscript.

   “a superior figure or letter”

8. Located above or out; higher in position.

   “the superior jaw; the superior part of an image”

9. Located above or out; higher in position.
10. Located above or out; higher in position.
11. Located above or out; higher in position.
12. Located above or out; higher in position.
13. Located above or out; higher in position.
14. More comprehensive.

    “A genus is superior to a species.”

15. Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
16. Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.

name

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12. Ellipsis of Lake Superior.
13. Ellipsis of Superior Craton.
14. Synonym of Superia.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

1. A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
2. A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
3. A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
4. 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.