SUPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does super mean? 

• SUPER (noun)
  The noun SUPER has 1 sense:

1. a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

  Familiarity information: SUPER used as a noun is very rare.

• SUPER (adjective)
  The adjective SUPER has 3 senses:

1. of the highest quality

2. including more than a specified category

3. extremely large

  Familiarity information: SUPER used as an adjective is uncommon.

• SUPER (adverb)
  The adverb SUPER has 1 sense:

1. to an extreme degree

  Familiarity information: SUPER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

super; superintendent

Hypernyms ("super" is a kind of...):

caretaker (a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person))

• SUPER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the highest quality

Synonyms:

A-one; ace; crack; first-rate; super; tiptop; top-notch; topnotch; tops

Context example:

she is absolutely tops

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Including more than a specified category

Context example:

a super experiment

Similar:

comprehensive (including all or everything)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Extremely large

Context example:

another super skyscraper

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

• SUPER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an extreme degree

Synonyms:

deathly; exceedingly; extremely; super

Context example:

as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes

 Context examples 

C. neteri is especially pathogenic to immunocompromised patients, causing super infections and bacteremia.

(Cedecea neteri, NCI Thesaurus)

A molecular genetic technique where genome-wide sequencing is performed on DNA regions that are super sensitive to cleavage by DNase I to identify putative DNA regulatory sequences.

(DNase-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)

C. davisae is pathogenic to immunocompromised patients causing super infections and nosocomially acquired bacteremia.

(Cedecea davisae, NCI Thesaurus)

Understanding how the components of wood come together to make super strong structures is important for understanding both how plants mature, and for new materials design.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

You will be super creative on the job on December 13, and that could earn you a tidy fee.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

'Betacyanin adds another benefit to a plant already loaded with phytonutrients, making spinach a true ''super food,"'

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

I preceded Mr. Omer, in compliance with his request; and after showing me a roll of cloth which he said was extra super, and too good mourning for anything short of parents, he took my various dimensions, and put them down in a book.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At a time when the majority of mammals were shrew- or mouse-sized—mere shadows of dinosaurs—Vintana was a super heavyweight, estimated to have had a body mass of about 20 pounds, two or three times the size of an adult groundhog today.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)