/ˈsypɑ/, /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/, /ˈsu.pɚ/
OriginFrom super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
- not-comparableOf excellent quality, superfine.
- not-comparableBetter than average, better than usual; wonderful.
- colloquial, not-comparableVery; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
“The party was super awesome.”
“The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.”
““The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted.”
- colloquial, not-comparableAbsolutely; utterly.
“I super don't care about that.”
- Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clippingClipping of superannuation.
“Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.”
““I want to make it clear, compassionate release of super should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of supercomputer.
“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”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, slangClipping of superhero.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of superhive.
“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.”
- US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, neologismClipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
“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”
“The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of supertanker.
“That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of supervisor.
- colloquialA superimposed caption or image.
“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.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of superhive.
“The question is: when is the best time to super?”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping of superimpose.
“Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]”
- 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"]”
“Teller and Oppenheimer discussing the feasibility of the Super [super atomic bomb, i.e., as later known, the hydrogen bomb]”
Formssupers(plural) · supers(present, singular, third-person) · supering(participle, present) · supered(participle, past) · supered(past)