Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant.
- adjective Greatest in importance, degree, significance, character, or achievement.
- adjective Ultimate; final.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Highest, especially in authority; holding the highest place in government or power.
- Highest; highest or most extreme, as to degree, import, etc.; greatest possible; utmost: as, supreme love or wisdom; a supreme hour; supreme baseness.
- Last.
- Synonyms and Greatest, first, leading, principal, chief, predominant, paramount, superlative. Supreme is much stronger than any of these.
- noun The highest point. [Rare.]
- noun The chief; the superior.
- noun [capitalized] With the definite article, the Supreme Being. See phrase above.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
- adjective Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense).
- adjective (Bot.) Situated at the highest part or point.
- adjective the Almighty; God.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Dominant , having power over all others. - adjective At the greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
- verb transitive (cooking) To
divide acitrus fruit into itssegments , removing theskin ,pith ,membranes , andseeds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective greatest in status or authority or power
- adjective final or last in your life or progress
- adjective highest in excellence or achievement
- adjective greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The phrases "most supreme," and "chiefest," in the first sentence, are incorrect, because _supreme_ and _chief_ are in the superlative degree without having the superlative form superadded, which addition makes them double superlatives.
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_still_ the _Sovereign_, and this renders the President absolute, because he is the representative of the supreme will of the _supreme
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KCNA uses the euphemism "supreme dignity" to refer to the Kim family.
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The word supreme is derived from two Sanskrit words that describe the highest state of Divine love and sweet service.
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The word supreme is derived from two Sanskrit words that describe the highest state of Divine love and sweet service.
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The word supreme is derived from two Sanskrit words that describe the highest state of Divine love and sweet service.
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But the big question that needs to be asked to him, is why would you ever take a step back and be president once you've had the title supreme allied commander?
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Nawaz says bin Laden's death offers what he calls a "supreme opportunity" to improve the U.S.
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Nawaz says bin Laden's death offers what he calls a "supreme opportunity" to improve the U.S.
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If everything is in balance, what they refer to as supreme equilibrium exists.
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