supreme

See also: Supreme and suprême

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suprême, from Latin supremus, superlative of superus (“that is above”). Doublet of supremo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌs(j)uːˈpɹiːm/

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Adjective

supreme (comparative supremer or more supreme, superlative supremest or most supreme)

1. Dominant, having power over all others.
   • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:

     The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

2. (sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.

   supreme disgust; supreme courage

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:supreme.
3. (botany) Situated at the highest part or point.

Synonyms

• (having power over all others): predominant, preponderant, regnant

Antonyms

• inferior
• minor

Derived terms

• supremacy
• supremacism
• supremacist
• supreme being
• Supreme Soviet

Related terms

• super

Translations

dominant

• Armenian: գերագույն (hy) (geraguyn), բարձրագույն (hy) (barjraguyn)
• Belarusian: гало́ўны (halóŭny), вярхо́ўны (vjarxóŭny), найвышэ́йшы (najvyšéjšy)
• Catalan: suprem (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最高 (zh) (zuìgāo), 至上 (zh) (zhìshàng), 至高 (zh) (zhìgāo)

• Dutch: opperst (nl), opperste (nl), oppermachtige (nl)
• Esperanto: supera (eo)
• Finnish: ylivertainen (fi)
• French: suprême (fr)
• Galician: supremo
• Georgian: უზენაესი (uzenaesi), უმაღლესი (umaɣlesi), უდიდესი (udidesi)
• German: höchster (de), oberster (de)
• Greek: ανώτατος (el) (anótatos)
• Hindi: सर्वोच्च (sarvocc)
• Hungarian: legfelsőbb (hu)
• Icelandic: æðstur
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• Interlingua: supreme
• Irish: ardcheannasach
• Italian: supremo (it) m, suprema f
• Japanese: 至高の (しこうの, shikō no), 最高の (ja) (さいこうの, saikō no)
• Korean: 최고 (ko) (choego) (最高 (ko))
• Macedonian: врховен (vrhoven), највисок (najvisok)
• Malay: tertinggi, agung (ms)
• Maori: taioreore
• Norman: suprême
• Portuguese: supremo (pt)
• Rapa Nui: mau
• Romanian: suprem (ro)
• Russian: верхо́вный (ru) (verxóvnyj), вы́сший (ru) (výsšij), высоча́йший (ru) (vysočájšij), наивы́сший (ru) (naivýsšij)
• Spanish: supremo (es)
• Turkish: yüksek (tr), yüce (tr), ulu (tr)
• Ukrainian: верхо́вний (uk) (verxóvnyj), найви́щий (uk) (najvýščyj)
• Vietnamese: tối cao (vi) (最高)

Verb

1. (transitive, cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.

Noun

supreme (plural supremes)

1. The highest point.
2. (cooking) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
3. (cooking) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.

External links

• “supreme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “supreme”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “supreme”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• eusperm, presume

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Interlingua

Adjective

supreme (comparative plus supreme, superlative le plus supreme)

1. supreme

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈprɛme/, [s̪uˈpr̺ɛː.me]
• Rhymes: -ɛme
• Hyphenation: su‧pre‧me

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective supremo.

Anagrams

• presume

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) suprēme

1. vocative masculine singular of suprēmus