adjective. Higher than another in rank, station, or authority.

adjective. Of a higher nature or kind.

adjective. Of great value or excellence; extraordinary.

adjective. Greater in number or amount than another.

adjective. Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.

adjective. Above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune.

adjective. Located higher than another; upper.

adjective. Inserted or situated above the perianth. Used of an ovary.

adjective. Set above the main line of type.

adjective. Of wider or more comprehensive application; generic. Used of a term or proposition.

noun. One that surpasses another in rank or quality.

noun. The head of a religious community, such as a monastery, abbey, or convent.

noun. A superior character, as the number 2 in x².

More elevated in place; higher; upper: as, the superior limb of the sun: opposed to inferior.

In anatomy and zoology, upper in relative position or direction; uppermost with regard to something else: correlated with anterior, inferior, and posterior.

In botany: Placed higher, as noting the relative position of the calyx and ovary: thus, the ovary is superior when the calyx is quite free from it, as normally; the calyx is superior when from being adnate to the ovary it appears to spring from its top.

Next the axis; belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem. Also called posterior.

Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending: said of the radicle.

Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity: as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

Higher or greater in respect to some quality or property; possessed or manifested in a higher (or, absolutely, very high) degree: applied to persons and things, and to their qualities and properties; surpassing others in the greatness, goodness, extent, or value of any quality; in mathematics, greater.

Being beyond the power or influence of something; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by something; above: used only predicatively or appositively: with to: as, a man superior to revenge. Sometimes used sarcastically, as of an assumed quality, without to: as, he smiled with a superior air.

In logic, less in comprehension; loss determinate; having less depth, and consequently commonly wider.

Synonyms Paramount, surpassing, predominant.

noun. One who is superior to or above another; one who is higher or greater than another, as in social station, rank, office, dignity, power, or ability.

noun. Specifically The chief of a monastery, convent, or abbey.

noun. In Scots law, one who or whoso predecessor has made an original grant of heritable property on condition that the grantee, termed the vassal, shall annually pay to him a certain sum (commonly called feu-duty) or perform certain services.

noun. In printing, a small figure or letter standing above or near the top of the line, used as a mark of reference or for other purposes: thus, x, a; so back, back, and other homonyms as distinguished in this dictionary.

noun. One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable.

noun. The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

adjective. More elevated in place or position; higher; upper.

adjective. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity.

adjective. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree.

adjective. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.

adjective. More comprehensive; as a term in classification.

adjective. undefined

adjective. 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.

adjective. Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

adjective. Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.

adjective. etc. See Conjunction, Planet, etc.

adjective. undefined

adjective. a figure or letter printed above the line, as a reference to a note or an index of a power, etc. Cf. Inferior figure, under Inferior.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Higher in quality.

adjective. Higher in rank.

adjective. Located above.

adjective. Being greater or better than average; extraordinary.

noun. A person of higher rank or quality.

noun. The senior person in a monastic community.

noun. a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth

adjective. of or characteristic of high rank or importance

"In mammals, where the term superior colliculus is generally used instead of optic tectum, this area is called the parabigeminal nucleus."

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