📖 Definitions of "Superior"
noun
- 1
A person of higher rank or quality.
- 2
The senior person in a monastic community.
- 3
The head of certain churches and colleges.
- 4
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.
adjective
- 1
Higher in quality.
"Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch."
- 2
Higher in rank.
- 3
More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
"A genus is superior to a species."
- 4
Located above.
"the superior jaw; the superior part of an image"
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