super

• (yod-dropping)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpə/

    • Audio (Received Pronunciation); /ˈsuːpə/:

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  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈsʉwpə/
    • (MLE) IPA^(key): [ˈsypɑ]
  • (Geordie) IPA^(key): [ˈsup̚ʔɐː]
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsupɚ/, [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]

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  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsʉːpə/

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  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsʉpəɾ/
  • (Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈsʉpəɹ/
  • (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈsupər/, [suː.pɜ(ɾ)]

• (without yod-dropping)
  • (conservative Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈsjuːpə/

    • Audio (Received Pronunciation); /ˈsjuːpə/:

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  • (Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪʊpə/
• Homophone: souper (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: su‧per
• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.

super (not comparable)

1. Of excellent quality, superfine.
2. Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

• (better): awesome, excellent

• super-

super (not comparable)(colloquial)

1. Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).

   The party was super awesome.

   • 1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:

     The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.

   • 2022 November 18, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, Kellen Browning, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted.

2. Absolutely; utterly.

   I super don't care about that.

Abbreviation by shortening.

super (plural supers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.

   Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.

   • 2025 October 16, Melissa Davey, “Australians took more than $1.4bn from their super last year for everything from weight loss to dental work”, in The Guardian‎^[2], Guardian Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 16 October 2025:

     “I want to make it clear, compassionate release of super should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said.

2. Clipping of supercomputer.
   • 1989, Kai Hwang, Doug DeGroot, Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence:

     The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.

3. (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
4. (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
   • 1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69:

     There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.

5. (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
6. (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
7. Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

   • 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎^[3]:

     The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.

8. Clipping of supertanker.
   • 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46:

     That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

9. Clipping of supervisor.
10. (television) A superimposed caption or image.
    • 2009, James Robert Parish, Jim Henson, page 114:

      Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry.

super (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)

1. (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
   • 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:

     The question is: when is the best time to super?

2. (television) Clipping of superimpose.
   • 1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:

     Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]

• sprue, Rupes, Pre-Us, re-ups, pures, Prues, Purse, purse, reups, rupes, puers

From English super. Popularized by Eric Tsang in the Super Trio series.

super

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Used when a tied or draw situation occurs, or when one is suggesting a draw.

Clipping of English supervisor.

super

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) supervisor (of a student)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) supervisor; manager

Borrowed from English super, French super, from Latin super.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsupɛr]

super (indeclinable)

1. (informal) super, great

   Synonym: supr

   Můj brácha si koupil super auto, to musíš vidět!

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Ten výlet byl prostě super!

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• This word is slightly more formal than supr, yet still informal.

• vynikající

super

1. (informal) super

   Synonym: supr

• “super”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Borrowed via English super from Latin super (“over”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuˀb̥ɐ]

super (neuter super or supert, plural super or (unofficial) supre)

1. (informal) terrific

super

1. (informal) very

• herre
• mega

Borrowed from English super, ultimately from Latin super.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsy.pər/

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• Hyphenation: su‧per

super

1. (informal) very, extremely, super

   De kunststofuitvoering is wel super duur.

   The plastic version is super expensive.

• superheld
• superkracht
• superlijm

super (not comparable)

1. great, super

   Die nieuwe karts zijn super.

   Those new karts are great.

Declension of super
uninflected	super
inflected	super
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		super
indefinite	m./f. sing.	super
	n. sing.	super
	plural	super
definite		super
partitive		supers

• hyper
• over

From Latin super. Doublet of sur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuper/

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• Rhymes: -uper
• Syllabification: su‧per

super

1. above, over
   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[4] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     Kaj la tero estis senforma kaj dezerta, kaj mallumo estis super la abismo; kaj la spirito de Dio ŝvebis super la akvo.

     And the Earth was formless and deserted, and darkness was above the abyss; and the spirit of God hovered over the water.

• sub

• “super”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “super”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited sur. See also hyper, borrowed from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ/

super (invariable)

1. superb, great

• super amas stellaire
• super-amas d'étoiles
• super-amas stellaire
• super combiné

• → Turkish: süper

super

1. (informal) extremely, very (as an intensifier)

   Il est super beau

   he's very handsome

• vachement
• hyper

super

1. great, fantastic

• super-

Probably a borrowing from a Germanic language, from *sūpaną (“to sip, sup”). If so then doublet of souper.

• IPA^(key): /sy.pe/

super

1. (regional) to suck, to sip

• “super”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• peurs, pures, repus, rupes

Borrowed from Latin super; modern usage influenced by English super.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzuːpɐ/ (prescriptive standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsu(ː)pɐ/ (Austria)

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super (strong nominative masculine singular superer, not comparable)

1. (colloquial) super, great, awesome

   Synonyms: klasse, spitze

In the standard language, super is indeclinable; it is only rarely declined in colloquial usage.

• supi

• “super” in Duden online
• “super”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[5] (in German)

super

1. about (focused on a given topic)

Borrowed from Latin super. Cf. sopra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.per/
• Rhymes: -uper
• Hyphenation: sù‧per

super (invariable)

1. super

super m (invariable)

1. the best
2. superphosphate

super f (invariable)

1. the best grade of petrol

• pruse, ruspe, sprue

From Proto-Italic *super, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”), German über (“above, over”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári, “above, upper”), Hindi ऊपर (ūpar, “above, top, up”), Odia ଉପର (upara, “above, up”) and Punjabi ਉੱਪਰ (uppar, “above, top, up”).

The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional. The ablative is from the ablative of cause.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊ.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.per]

super (+ accusative, ablative)

1. (with accusative or ablative) [of place] above, over, on the top of, upon

   Cibus super mēnsam est.

   The food is on the table.

2. (with accusative) [of place] above, beyond
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebrae super faciem abyssi et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

3. (with accusative) [of measure] above, beyond, over, in addition to
4. (with ablative) concerning, regarding

• super-

super (comparative superius, superlative summē or suprēmē)

1. above, on top, over
2. upwards
3. moreover, in addition, besides, on top of this, too, also
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.29:

     Hīs accēnsa super [...]

     [Juno] having been inflamed by these [things] in addition [...]
     Or, translated more plainly:
     With all of this angering her [...]
     (See: Juno (mythology).)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

• sub

• “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “super”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
    
• super in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[7], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from English super.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.pɛr/

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• Rhymes: -upɛr
• Syllabification: su‧per
• Homophone: super-

super (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial) great, excellent

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry

super (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) excellently

• super-

• “super”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[8] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “super”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[9] (in Polish)

• súper (prescriptive)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.

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• Hyphenation: su‧per

super (not comparable)

1. (informal) super, very (intensifier)

   Synonyms: muito, bastante, bué, mega

   super fixe

   very nice

super (invariable)

1. super

• super-

• “super”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French super. Doublet of spre.

super m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. superb, great

super

1. superbly

• suber
• supre
• subre

From Latin super.

• IPA^(key): /super/

super

1. on, on top of, above

   Synonym: supra

Borrowed from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.

super (invariable)

1. (intensifier) very, mega

• IPA^(key): /²sʉːpɛr/
• IPA^(key): [ˈsʉːpːær] (Finland, verb)
• IPA^(key): [ˈsʉpær] (Finland, adjective)

super

1. present indicative of supa

super (not comparable)

1. perfect, super, excellent, great

   det blir super! ― that's going to be great!

Only used predicatively.