supermodel

See also: 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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.
3. (artificial intelligence) A model with greatly exceeding capabilities.
   • 2026 June 16, “The Mythos Debate Misses the Point”, in Optiv.com‎^[2]:

     Across software development, vulnerability research, exploit development, reconnaissance, social engineering, infrastructure discovery and security operations, AI is already accelerating both offense and defense. We do not need a hypothetical supermodel to observe the trend. We are living inside it.

Derived terms

• supermodeldom
• supermodelesque
• supermodelish

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, adiperagawati f
• Italian: supermodel
• Japanese: スーパーモデル (sūpāmoderu)
• Korean: 슈퍼모델 (syupeomodel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supermodell m

• Persian: سوپرمدل (supermodel)
• Polish: supermodel (pl) m pers, 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

Polish

supermodel

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

Polish super-

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *medos

Latin modus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Late Latin modulusder.

Vulgar Latin *modellus

Italian modellobor.

Polish model

Polish supermodel

From super- + model.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.pɛrˈmɔ.dɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɔdɛl
• Syllabification: su‧per‧mo‧del

Noun

supermodel m pers (female equivalent supermodelka)

1. supermodel (highly paid, famous fashion model)

   Hypernym: model

Declension

Declension of supermodel

	singular	plural
nominative	supermodel	supermodele
genitive	supermodela	supermodeli/supermodelów
dative	supermodelowi	supermodelom
accusative	supermodela	supermodeli/supermodelów
instrumental	supermodelem	supermodelami
locative	supermodelu	supermodelach
vocative	supermodelu	supermodele

Further reading

• “supermodel”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)