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Supper vs Superior - What's the difference?

supper | superior |

As nouns the difference between supper and superior

is that supper is food consumed before going to bed while superior is a person of higher rank or quality.

As a verb supper

is to consume a snack before retiring.

As an adjective superior is

higher in quality.

supper

English

(wikipedia supper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Food consumed before going to bed.
  • Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
  • A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
    • a fish supper'''; a pizza '''supper
  • A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

    • Derived terms

    * kitchen supper * Last Supper * Lord's Supper

    See also

    * Meals

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To consume a snack before retiring.
  • To eat dinner (see above).

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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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