supermodel

English

Etymology

First written example dating from 1942 in the English language, in common use since the late 1980s. Falsely attributed to supermodel Janice Dickinson, who says she coined the term nearly 40 years later.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supermodel (plural supermodels)

1. A highly paid, famous fashion 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), 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
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• 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

See also

• fashion model
• model

Further reading

• supermodel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia