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/suːˈpɪəɹi.ə(ɹ)/ · su·pe·ri·or
noun
- A person of higher rank or quality. The committee appointed a superior to oversee the new project.
- The senior person in a monastic community. The monks consulted their superior before making any major decisions.
- The head of certain churches and colleges. The college's superior presided over the graduation ceremony.
adjective
- Higher in quality. Rebecca found the silk dress superior to the cotton one.
- Higher in rank. In the military hierarchy, a colonel is superior to a major.
- More comprehensive, as a term in classification. In taxonomy, a genus is superior to a species.
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Did you know? Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, was named by French explorers as ‘le lac supérieur’, meaning ‘the upper lake’, because it lies upstream of the others.