Usually means: Higher in rank, quality, status.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word superior:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Superior, superior: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Superior, superior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. superior: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Superior, superior: Vocabulary.com
  6. Superior, superior: Wordnik
  7. superior: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Superior, superior: Wiktionary
  9. superior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Superior, superior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. superior: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. superior: Dictionary.com
  13. superior (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. superior: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Superior (Marvel Comics), Superior (album), Superior (band), Superior (bus manufacturer), Superior (comics), Superior (hierarchy), Superior (manga), Superior (proposed U.S. state), Superior (proposed state), Superior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Superior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. superior, superior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. superior: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. superior: Free Dictionary
  20. superior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. superior: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. Superior: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. superior: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Superior: Rhymezone
  25. superior: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. superior: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superior: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Superior: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  5. superior: Medical dictionary
  6. Superior: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Superior: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Higher in rank, status, or quality.
adjective:  Of high standard or quality.
adjective:  Greater in size or power.
adjective:  (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
adjective:  Greater or better than average.
adjective:  Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
adjective:  (typography) Printed in superscript.
adjective:  Located above or out; higher in position.
adjective:  (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
adjective:  (botany) (of a calyx) 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.
adjective:  (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
adjective:  (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
adjective:  (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
adjective:  (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
adjective:  Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
adjective:  (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
noun:  A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
noun:  The senior person in a monastic community.
noun:  The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
noun:  (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
noun:  (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Pinal County, Arizona.
noun:  A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city in Dickinson County, Iowa.
noun:  A township in Chippewa County, Michigan.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana.
noun:  A small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
noun:  A city, village, and civil town in Wisconsin. The city is the county seat of Douglas County.
noun:  A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
noun:  Synonym of Superia
noun:  Ellipsis of Lake Superior. [A lake in North America; the largest of the Great Lakes and second largest lake and largest freshwater lake in the world by area.]
noun:  Ellipsis of Superior Craton.

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