Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A form of prefix super- found in words from the older French. It is little used as an English formative, except technically in certain scientific terms, where it is equivalent to super- or supra-: as, suranal, surangular, surrenal, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
Examples
“The _Hydrogéologie_ closes with a "_Mémoire sur la matière du feu_" and one "_sur la matière du son_," both being reprinted from the _Journal de”
“BTW, I like to bake potatoes (scrubbed and pierced, of course) in the oven sans foil but oiled with olive oil, the skins get nice and crispy and that, bien sur, is the best part!”
“I think Abin sur has more to do with this than we thought.”
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“As the “Fabliau de la Femme qui se fist putain sur la fosse de son Mari,” it tempted Brantôme and La”
“i kinda wanted my abin sur to have an acting range beyond just 1 emotion: kill jedi! but campbell is a good enough director to get the right performance.”
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“C’est ça, le bon karma?) acquis (justement) bouquin sur le karma ainsi qu’un petit texte sur les mantras trois séances cardio + abdos, une séance muscu acheté de quoi faire de bons smoothies pour le petit déj corvées diverses (une machine, du recyclage, etc.)”
“It seems extraordinary given the prestige that each house maintains, but Champagne is the only wine region in France to allow a practice known as sur latte trading.”
“Bien vu — faut que je retrouve mes sources, je suis certaine que ce “absolu” n'est pas une initiative de ma part, mais que j'ai trouvé cette expression sur un site “sérieux”.”
“Si tu mets un tag sur tous les billets que tu écris, ce tag ne veut plus rien dire.”
“It was expected that the defense would put on what is called a sur-rebuttal, basically, an answer to the tape.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sur’.
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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hernesheir Fleece color pattern in which there are two shades of color on each fiber.
Feb 20, 2010