superior
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Definitions & Usage
Higher in rank, status, or quality.
Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
(typography) Printed in superscript.
Located above or out; higher in position.
(taxonomy) More comprehensive.
Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
(astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
(Scots law, 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.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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.”
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“Additionally, reliability proved to be superior to NBL's design, with an average of 120,000 miles run during 1959.”
— 2022 January 12, David Clough, “From Germany with love: a Warship perspective”, in RAIL, number 948, page 46: