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Super   /sˈupər/   Listen
Super

adjective
1.
Of the highest quality.  Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops.  "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"
2.
Including more than a specified category.
3.
Extremely large.
noun
1.
A caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector.  Synonym: superintendent.
adverb
1.
To an extreme degree.  Synonyms: exceedingly, extremely, passing.  "Extremely unpleasant"



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"Super" Quotes from Famous Books



... suffering from delirium tremens, the disease known to common speech as "the horrors." In describing this case he does all that language can do to make it more horrible than the reality. He gives us, not realism, but super-realism, if such a term does ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... could see that even in his cursory examination of the door he had gained a pretty good knowledge of the location of the bolts imbedded in the steel. One after another he was cutting clear through and severing them, as if with a super-human knife. ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... me, we're apt to think, ain't we, that all the rapid motion in the world gets its start right here in New York? Well, that's the wrong dope. For instance, once I got next to a super-energized specimen that come in from the north end of nowhere, and before I was through the experience had ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... religious and the magical man-god respectively. In the former, a being of an order different from and superior to man is supposed to become incarnate, for a longer or a shorter time, in a human body, manifesting his super-human power and knowledge by miracles wrought and prophecies uttered through the medium of the fleshly tabernacle in which he has deigned to take up his abode. This may also appropriately be called the inspired or incarnate type ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... Theraeon, ac deinceps duae Syrtes,[137] interque eas Leptis; deinde Philaenon arae,[138] quem locum Aegyptum versus finem imperii habuere Carthaginienses, post aliae Punicae urbes. Cetera loca usque ad Mauretaniam Numidae tenent; proxime Hispaniam Mauri sunt. Super Numidiam[139] Gaetulos accepimus partim in tuguriis, alios incultius vagos agitare, post eos Aethiopas esse, dein loca exusta solis ardoribus. Igitur bello Jugurthino pleraque ex Punicis oppida et fines Carthaginiensium, quos novissime[140] ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)


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