supermodel

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ model. First written example dates from 1942 in the English language, in common use since the late 1980s. Sometimes incorrectly attributed to supermodel Janice Dickinson.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supermodel (plural supermodels)

1. A highly paid, famous fashion model.
   • 2022 March 11, Sophie Lee, “How Kendall Jenner Became the Highest Paid Supermodel in the World”, in L'Officiel‎^[1]:

     Kendall Jenner first earned the title of the "world's highest paid supermodel" in 2018 when Forbes released an article asserting that she had raked in $22.5 million that year.

2. (dated) A technological improvement over an invention's previous model.

Related terms

• model

Translations

famous fashion model

• Armenian: սուպերմոդել (supermodel)
• Belarusian: супермадэ́ль f (supjermadélʹ), топ-мадэ́ль f (top-madélʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超級名模／超级名模 (chāojí míngmó)

• Czech: topmodelka f, supermodelka f
• Danish: supermodel c
• Dutch: supermodel (nl)
• Estonian: supermodell
• Finnish: huippumalli, supermalli
• French: top model (fr) m or f, top-modèle (fr) f
• Galician: supermodelo m or f
• Georgian: სუპერმოდელი (suṗermodeli)
• German: Supermodel f
• Hungarian: szupermodell (hu)
• Indonesian: supermodel, adiperagawan
• Italian: supermodel
• Japanese: スーパーモデル (sūpāmoderu)
• Korean: 슈퍼모델 (syupeomodel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supermodell m

• Persian: سوپرمدل (supermodel)
• Polish: supermodelka (pl) f
• Portuguese: supermodelo m or f
• Romanian: super-modelă f
• Russian: супермоде́ль (ru) f (supermodɛ́lʹ), топ-моде́ль (ru) f (top-modɛ́lʹ)
• Slovak: topmodelka f
• Spanish: supermodelo m or f
• Swedish: supermodell (sv) c
• Ukrainian: супермоде́ль f (supermodélʹ), топ-моде́ль f (top-modélʹ)
• Vietnamese: siêu mẫu (vi)

See also

• fashion model
• model

Further reading

• supermodel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia