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      superior
      noun
      A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
      The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
      The senior person in a monastic community.
      (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
      Synonym of Superia.
      A number of places in the United States:
      A town in Pinal County, Arizona.
      A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.
      An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
      A minor city in Dickinson County, Iowa.
      A township in Chippewa County, Michigan.
      A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
      A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana.
      A small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
      An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
      A city, village, and civil town in Wisconsin. The city is the county seat of Douglas County.
      A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
      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.]
      Ellipsis of Superior Craton.
      (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.
      adjective
      Higher in rank, status, or quality.
      Of high standard or quality.
      Greater or better than average.
      Greater in size or power.
      (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
      Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
      (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
      Located above or out; higher in position.
      (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
      (typography) Printed in superscript.
      Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
      (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
      (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.
      (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
      (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
      (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
      Roots
      supersuper- · Latin · over, above
      Synonyms for superior
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