SUPERIOR

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superior I. adjectiv

1. superior;

to be overcome by superior numbers a fi învins sau copleşit de superioritatea numerică;

to be superior to flattery a fi mai presus de linguşiri.

2. mai înalt; mai mare.

3. mai bun, de calitate superioară; excelent;

with superior forces cu forţe superioare;

with superior strength cu mai multă vigoare;

made of superior cloth confecţionat din stofă de calitate superioară;

a very superior man un om extraordinar, un om puţin obişnuit.

4. arogant, îngâmfat, mulţumit de sine;

with a superior tone pe un ton de superioritate, pe un ton arogant.

5. inaccesibil, sus pus.

6. (poligr.) care se află deasupra (rândurilor, paragrafului etc.), de sus.

superior II. substantiv

1. superior, şef, comandant.

2. persoană cu calităţi superioare altora;

to have no superiorin wit a nu-l întrece nimeni ca inteligenţă.

3. stareţ, egumen;

the Father Superior părintele stareţ;

Lady / Mother Superior maică stareţă.

4. (poligr.) semn pus deasupra rândurilor, literă de sus.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Our part of London is very superior to most others!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Your superior knowledge of your sister must make the latter probable.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Sharp was the first master, and superior to Mr. Mell.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The anterior and superior part of a human bearing the mouth, the brain and sensory organs.

(Head, NCI Thesaurus)

Your powers, if I may say so without offence, seem superior to your opportunities.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They will have it that nature teaches them to love the whole species, and it is reason only that makes a distinction of persons, where there is a superior degree of virtue.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I put the question, with a hint that it was my companion’s modesty which made him acknowledge his brother as his superior.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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