Meaning

• A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).

  "The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work."

• An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.

• Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number.

• An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single.

• A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.

Meaning

• Greater in number than.

• Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.

• Beyond what is necessary; redundant.