Meaning

• A person of higher rank or quality.

• The senior person in a monastic community.

• The head of certain churches and colleges.

• One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.

Meaning

• Higher in quality.

  "Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch."

• Higher in rank.

• More comprehensive, as a term in classification.

  "A genus is superior to a species."

• Located above.

  "the superior jaw; the superior part of an image"

• Greater or better than average; extraordinary.

• Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.

• Of a planet: closer to the Earth than to the sun.