transcription, транскрипция: [ su:pɪəriə(r) ]
( superiors)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If one thing or person is superior to another, the first is better than the second.
We have a relationship infinitely superior to those of many of our friends...
Long-term stock market investments have produced superior returns compared with cash deposits.
≠ inferior
ADJ : oft ADJ to n
• su‧peri‧or‧ity
The technical superiority of laser discs over tape is well established.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N over/to n
2.
If you describe something as superior , you mean that it is good, and better than other things of the same kind.
A few years ago it was virtually impossible to find superior quality coffee in local shops...
Lulu was said to be of very superior intelligence.
ADJ
3.
A superior person or thing is more important than another person or thing in the same organization or system.
...negotiations between the mutineers and their superior officers...
ADJ : oft ADJ to n
4.
Your superior in an organization that you work for is a person who has a higher rank than you.
Other army units are completely surrounded and cut-off from communication with their superiors...
≠ subordinate
N-COUNT : poss N
5.
If you describe someone as superior , you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are better, more important, or more intelligent than other people.
Finch gave a superior smile...
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• su‧peri‧or‧ity
...a false sense of his superiority over mere journalists.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N over n
6.
If one group of people has superior numbers to another group, the first has more people than the second, and therefore has an advantage over it. ( FORMAL )
The demonstrators fled when they saw the authorities’ superior numbers...
ADJ