super

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extremely large

   another super skyscraper

2. 2
   adj

   including more than a specified category

   a super experiment

3. 3
   adv

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

   The party was super awesome.

4. 4
   adv

   Absolutely; utterly.

   I super don't care about that.

5. 5
   noun

   Clipping of superannuation.

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

6. 6
   noun

   Clipping of supercomputer.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Clipping of superhero.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

8. 8
   noun

   Clipping of superhive.

   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.

Etymology

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