Meaning

4 senses

  1. A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.

    The senior person in a monastic community.

    Vorgesetzter, Vorgesetzte

    the head of a religious community

  2. The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.

  3. A superior letter, figure, or symbol.

  4. (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.

Examples

211 sentences

  1. This cloth is superior to that.

    Ця тканина краща за ту. — deniko

    deDieser Stoff ist höherwertiger als jener. — Tamy

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  2. I'll get permission from my superior.

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  3. I want to talk to your superior.

    deIch will mit Ihrem Vorgesetzten sprechen! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. It is wrong to think that men are superior to women.

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  5. Tom is your superior.

    ruТом - твой начальник. — marafon

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person of higher rank:

Origin

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upp

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

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Forms

plural: superiors
Singularsuperior
Pluralsuperiors

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
overlingsuperscript
Close in meaning
  • one of greater rank or station or quality:higher-upsuperordinate
  • a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character:superscript
  • the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes:Lake Superior
  • a combatant who is able to defeat rivals:victormaster

Antonyms

1 antonyms
inferior

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
superhumansuperintendentB2superioritysuperlativeA2superman

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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