superior
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Definitions ofsuperior
- A person of higher rank or quality.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- The head of certain churches and colleges.
- 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.
- Higher in quality.
Example: "Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch."
- Higher in rank.
- More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
Example: "A genus is superior to a species."
- Located above.
Example: "the superior jaw; the superior part of an image"
- Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
- Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
- Of a planet: closer to the Earth than to the sun.
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