superiors

nounperson higher or highest in rank

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noun person higher or highest in rank

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Word Origin & History

late 14c., "higher in position," from Old French superior, from Latin superiorem (nominative superior) "higher," comparative of superus "situated above, upper," from super "above, over" (see super-). Meaning "higher in rank or dignity" is attested from late 15c.; sense of "of a higher nature or character" is attested from 1530s. Original sense was preserved more strongly in French (cf. les étages supérieur "the upper stories"), and in Lake Superior, a loan-translation of French Lac Supérieur, literally "upper lake" (it has the highest elevation of the five Great Lakes).

Example Sentences for superiors

It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.

The chaplain was a little distance away from the two Superiors.

Sixth, humility, which we should feel only before our superiors.

He was concerned with his superiors, and his superiors only.

He was brutal and overbearing with the workmen, but humble in the presence of his superiors.

The South Americans are our superiors in some respects; we are their superiors in other respects.

I was told that it had pleased my superiors to promote me to the rank of a lance-corporal.

But surely, Thrasymachus, the arts are the superiors and rulers of their own subjects?

The lieutenant scowled and spoke in German to his superiors.

So Jason got less and less help, or even passive cooperation, from his superiors.

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