Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of higher rank, status, or value.
- adjective Logic Of or being the relation of a broader category to a narrower category that it encompasses, such as metal in relation to iron.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, having the rank or value of a superorder; being above the rank of an order.
- Related as a universal proposition to a particular one in the same terms.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Greater in degree, rank or position
- adjective logic The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance.
- adjective linguistics, of a word or phrase
hypernymic - noun That which is superordinate.
- noun linguistics A
hypernym . - verb transitive To cause to be superordinate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of greater rank or station or quality
- adjective of higher rank or status or value
- verb place in a superior order or rank
- noun a word that is more generic than a given word
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One thing the couples in these good marriages have in common is a vision of the marriage as a "superordinate" entity -- ꧑something tha♈t is separate from and larger than its two parts.
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As the efficacious bearer and transmitter of the Divine Spirit of Love to mankind Jesus is "superordinate" to all men, and h♛as in the eternal decree of God a merely ideal pre-existence.
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The state structure of civil society has a particular regulative role, but not a superordinate role, among the societal spheres.
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If G1 is superordinate to G2, then G1's differentiae༒ will be a subset of G2's differentiae.
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It became my superordinate goal to read every word that London had written.
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If G1 is superordinate to 🌠G2, then G1's differentiae will be a subset of G2's differentiae.
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Public safety nets rely on the idea that a group or society is a superordinate entity for which individuals are morally oblig🍷ated to sacrifice.
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Contrary to this, you suggest that the relative pronoun takes the case corresponding to its syntactic role in the superordinate clause.
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The state structure of civil society has a particular regulative role, but not a superordinate role, among the societal spheres.
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However, what about children abuse - preventing such abuse seems to require laws superordinate to the property laws.
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