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Superior   /supˈɪriər/   Listen
adjective
Superior  adj.  
1.
More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
2.
Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
3.
Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
4.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to. "There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings."
5.
More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
6.
(Bot.)
(a)
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.
(b)
Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
(c)
Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
Superior conjunction, Superior planets, etc. See Conjunction, Planet, etc.
Superior figure, Superior letter (Print.), a figure or letter printed above the line, as a reference to a note or an index of a power, etc; as, in x^(2) + y^(n), 2 is a superior figure, n a superior letter. Cf. Inferior figure, under Inferior.


noun
Superior  n.  
1.
One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
2.
(Eccl.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.





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"Superior" Quotes from Famous Books



... us the better," explained Joey; "we help each other. Besides, I particularly want you in it. There's a sort of superior Pickwickian atmosphere surrounding ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome
... The superior advantages of this alternative were instantly plain. It would be safer for Camilla, since it would operate at once; and also Darcy said that the formal details could be arranged much better in Paris than in London, as doctors could be found there who would sign ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... which the streets of Troy are paved do not lend themselves readily to expertness in shooting with marbles. But the subject of this memoir was ever one who, adapting himself to difficulties, rose superior to them. The glass material of which the relic is composed shows numerous indentations in its spherical outline, eloquent testimony to the character which had already begun to learn the lesson of greatness and by perseverance to bend circumstances to its will. ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Notwithstanding the denunciations of the Gaulois, I have not the remotest intention to describe the National Guards as a force of any real value for offensive operations. If, as the Gaulois insists, they are more numerous and better armed than the Prussians, and if the French artillery is superior to the Prussians, they will be able to raise the siege; and then I will acknowledge that I have been wrong in my estimate of them. As yet they have only blown their own trumpets, as though this would cause the Prussian redoubts, like the walls of Jericho, to fall down. I make no imputation ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... cried Ronald—"good and fair, modest and graceful. Her heart is pure as her face is fair. What mesalliance can there be, father? I never have believed and never shall believe in the cruel laws of caste. In what is one man better than or superior to another save that he is more ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme


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