super

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Informal An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.
2. n. Informal A superintendent in an apartment or office building.
3. n. Informal A supernumerary.
4. n. Printing A thin starched cotton mesh used to reinforce the spines and covers of books.
5. adj. Informal Very large, great, or extreme: "yet another super Skyscraper” ( Dylan Thomas).
6. adj. Informal Excellent; first-rate: a super party.
7. adv. Informal Especially; extremely: a super accurate missile; was super careful.
8. v. Printing To reinforce (a book spine or cover) with super.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘over, above, beyond’: equivalent to hyper- of Greek origin, or over- of English origin. In use it has either the meaning ‘over’ or ‘above’ in place or position, as in superstructure, etc., or
2. n. A supernumerary; specifically, a supernumerary actor.
3. n. A superhive. See bar super, under bar.
4. n. A superintendent.
5. n. One of the medium or middle sorts of a fleece of wool.
6. n. An abbreviation of superior
7. n. of superfine.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of excellent quality, superfine.
2. adj. better than average, better than usual; wonderful.
3. adv. informal Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
4. n. informal, Northeastern US Abbreviation of superintendent in the sense of a building's resident manager, sometimes clarified as "building super".
5. n. Australia, New Zealand, informal, uncountable Short form of superannuation, the Australian/New Zealand retirement benefits or pension scheme.
6. n. beekeeping An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
7. v. beekeeping To add or to place a super atop the existing boxes of the beehive.
8. n. comics, slang superhero.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Theatrical Cant A contraction of supernumerary, in sense 2.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. to an extreme degree
2. adj. of the highest quality
3. adj. including more than a specified category
4. adj. extremely large
5. n. a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector