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super
/ˈsupɚ/
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What does super mean?
adjective
- Of excellent quality, superfine.
- Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.
adverb
- Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
More meanings (15)
adverb
- Absolutely; utterly.
noun
- (informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (slang) Clipping of superhero.
- Clipping of superhive.
- (informal) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- Clipping of supervisor.
- A superimposed caption or image.
- (obsolete) A watch (timepiece).
verb
- Clipping of superhive.
- Clipping of superimpose.
proper noun
- In any of various contexts, a specifically named instance of a super, such as a particular superintendent, supervisor, or super-weapon.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsupɚ/
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See this word in context.
The bread is super excellent, but the poor wives seem to be making and baking it all day.
"When a man asked for a checkweighman, in the language of the super he was getting too smart."
More book examples (3)
Cum suspicimus mæni cælestia mundi Templa super, stellisque micantibus arthera fiium, El venit in mcntem lunæ solisque viarurn.
There has been much confusion and doubt as to the true meaning of the words, "nec super eum ibimus, neo super eum mittemus."
The prepositions a or ab, absque, coram, cum, de e or ex, prae, pro, sine, tenus, in, subter, sub and super govern the ablative.