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        "Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”)."
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              "mean": "Higher in rank, status, or quality.\nRebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.\n1918,  W B Maxwell,  chapter XII, in  The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, , and all these articles  made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.\n2022 January 12,  David Clough,  “From Germany with love: a Warship perspective”, in  RAIL, number 948, page 46:Additionally, reliability proved to be superior to NBL's design, with an average of 120,000 miles run during 1959.",
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                "Of high standard or quality.",
                "Greater in size or power.",
                "(superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.\n1711 December 12 (Gregorian calendar)​,  Joseph Addison; Richard Steele ,  “SATURDAY, December 1, 1711”, in  The Spectator, number 237; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume III, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy   than a brave man superior to his sufferings.",
                "Greater or better than average.\nSynonym: extraordinary"
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              "mean": "Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening)."
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              "mean": "(typography) Printed in superscript.\na superior figure or letter"
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              "mean": "Located above or out; higher in position.\nthe superior jaw; the superior part of an image",
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                " (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.",
                "(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.\nSynonym: posterior",
                "(botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.\nSynonym: ascending"
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              "mean": "(taxonomy) More comprehensive.\nA genus is superior to a species."
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              "mean": "Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.\nSynonym: supercilious"
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              "mean": "(astronomy) (of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun."
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              "mean": "A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.\nSynonym: overling",
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                "The senior person in a monastic community.",
                "The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.\nHyponyms: father superior, mother superior"
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              "mean": "(printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.\nSynonym: superscript"
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              "mean": "(Scotland, 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."
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