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Encyclopedia > Superior
Look up superior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Superior may refer to Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • superior (hierarchy), in a hierarchical structure of any kind, a superior is above a subordinate and closer to the apex
  • thus superior is the generic term, and in some cases the formal title, for the head of a monastery or other local unit of a religious order or congregation, e.g. Abbot and prior, while a General superior and a provincial superior, exercise a supervisory role in a religious order or congregation viz. a territorial part of it (called ecclesiastical province)
  • "Superior" is commonly used as an adjective -- see All pages beginning with "superior"
  • Standard Superior, a German automobile brand built in the 1920s that may have been a fore-runner of the Volkswagen Beetle

In a hierarchical tree structure of any kind, a superior is higher in the hierarchy and thus closer to the apex than the subordinate ones. ... Abbots coat of arms The word abbot, meaning father, has been used as a Christian clerical title in various, mainly monastic, meanings. ... Prior is a Latin adjective, meaning coming before, as earlier (as in a priori, regardless what comes next). ... A Superior General, or General Superior, is the Superior at the head of a whole religious order or congregation. ... A provincial superior is a major superior of a religious order acting under the orders superior general and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors in a territorial division of the order called a province (not to be confused with an ecclesiastical province which is a group... Standard Superior was an automobile brand used from 1933-1935 by Standard Fahrzeugfabrik of Germany,founded by Wilhelm Gutbrod. ... Superior Coach was once a school bus manufacturer, but today it focus on building hearses and is located in Lima, Ohio. ... Superior is a German Progressive metal band. ... Progressive metal is a genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ...

Geographical locations

Superior is also the name of several places in the United States of America: Lake Superior, viewed from Au Train Bay in Alger County, Michigan Lake Superior (known as Gichigami in an Ojibwe language), bounded by Ontario and Minnesota to the north and Wisconsin and Michigan in the south, is the largest of North Americas Great Lakes. ...


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Superior, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (604 words)
Superior is a city and the county seat of Douglas County, Wisconsin.
Superior is located at the western end of Lake Superior in northwestern Wisconsin.
The Cathedral of Christ the King in Superior is the mother church of the diocese.
Lake Superior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (845 words)
Lake Superior (known as Gichigami in an Ojibwe language), bounded by Ontario and Minnesota to the north and Wisconsin and Michigan in the south, is the largest of North America's Great Lakes.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.
The Caspian Sea, while vastly larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is saline; though presently isolated, in the past, it has been repeatedly connected to, and isolated from, the Mediterranean via the Black Sea.
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