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Superior vs Highman - What's the difference?

superior | highman |

As nouns the difference between superior and highman

is that superior is a person of higher rank or quality while highman is a man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior.

As an adjective superior

is higher in quality.

superior

English

Alternative forms

* superiour (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Higher in quality.
  • Higher in rank.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • 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
  • # (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
  • # (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
  • # (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
  • # (typography) Printed in superscript.
  • a superior figure or letter
  • Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
  • Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .
  • * Spectator
    • There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

    Usage notes

    * Superior and inferior are generally followed by to; than is sometimes used mistakenly.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * superiorness

    Related terms

    * superiority

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of higher rank or quality.
  • The senior person in a monastic community.

    • Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

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    highman

    English

    Noun

    (highmen)
  • A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior.
  • *1834 , The New sporting magazine - Page 88:
    • If not riding for life, that he is riding for immortality; and as the hero may perchance feel (for even a highman may feel like a hero), when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, [...]
  • *2007 , David Farland, The Runelords :
    • So the highman' sent to the King, asking him to purchase the wool for his troops at a bargain price. "But the ' highman did not know that rain in the west hills had caused a blight of wool rot on the sheep there. [...]"
  • (slang, obsolete) A loaded die that yields high numbers.
  • *2012 , P F Chisholm, A Famine of Horses :
    • "He had a couple of bales of crooked dice, a highman and a lowman and one with a bristle on the pip, but he hasn't the way of using them properly yet. [...]"