[su.per.struc.ture] n (1641) 1 a: an entity, concept, or complex based on a more fundamental one b: social institutions (as the law or politics) that are in Marxist theory erected upon the economic base
2: a structure built as a vertical extension of something else: as a: all of a building above the basement b: the structural part of a ship above the main deck -- su.per.struc.tur.al adj