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Super
Definitions
- 1 Of excellent quality, superfine. not-comparable
- 2 Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. not-comparable
- 1 including more than a specified category wordnet
- 2 extremely large wordnet
- 3 of the highest quality wordnet
- 1 Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). colloquial, not-comparable
"The party was super awesome."
- 2 Absolutely; utterly. colloquial, not-comparable
"I super don't care about that."
- 1 to an extreme degree wordnet
- 1 In any of various contexts, a specifically named instance of a super, such as a particular superintendent, supervisor, or super-weapon.
"You better call the Super if you want your repairs done [the specific superintendent in the implicit context of a specific apartment building; parallel with "President" versus "president"]"
- 1 Clipping of superannuation. Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal
"Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired."
- 2 a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector wordnet
- 3 Clipping of supercomputer. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example."
- 4 Clipping of superhero. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, slang
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:super."
- 5 Clipping of superhive. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing."
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- 6 Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”). US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, informal
- 7 Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, neologism
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:super."
- 8 Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks."
- 9 Clipping of supertanker. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs."
- 10 Clipping of supervisor. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
- 11 A superimposed caption or image. colloquial
"Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry."
- 1 Clipping of superhive. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"The question is: when is the best time to super?"
- 2 Clipping of superimpose. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]"
Etymology
From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
Abbreviation by shortening.
Abbreviation by shortening.
Proper name capitalized from ellided forms with super and super-.
See also for "super"
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