Noun
superiority (countable and uncountable, plural superiorities)
- The state of being superior.
Many US colleges want to achieve superiority in the sport of football.
1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 15:The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.
2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.
- (Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
Translations
the state of being superior
- Azerbaijani: üstünlük (az)
- Belarusian: перава́га f (pjeraváha), старшы́нства n (staršýnstva), старшынство́ n (staršynstvó)
- Bulgarian: превъзхо́дство (bg) n (prevǎzhódstvo)
- Catalan: superioritat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 優勢 / 优势 (zh) (yōushì), 優越 / 优越 (zh) (yōuyuè)
- Czech: převaha f, nadřazenost (cs) f
- Esperanto: supereco
- Finnish: paremmuus (fi), etevämmyys
- French: supériorité (fr) f
- Galician: superioridade (gl) f
- Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba)
- German: Überlegenheit (de) f
- Greek: ανωτερότητα (el) f (anoterótita), υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí)
- Ancient: ὑπεροχή f (huperokhḗ), ὑπερβολή f (huperbolḗ)
- Hungarian: fölény (hu), felsőbbrendűség (hu)
- Ido: supereso (io)
- Irish: ardchéimíocht f
- Old Irish: prímdacht f
- Italian: superiorità (it) f
- Japanese: 高貴 (ja) (こうき, kōki), 上級 (ja) (じょうきゅう, jōkyū), 高級 (ja) (こうきゅう, kōkyū), 優位 (ja) (ゆうい, yūi)
- Latin: superioritas f
- Latvian: pārākums m
- Manx: mainshtyraght f, shareid m, fareid m, ard-chioneys m, laue an eaghtyr f
- Maori: hiranga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: overlegenhet (no) m or f
- Polish: wyższość (pl) f, przewaga (pl) f
- Portuguese: superioridade (pt) f
- Romanian: superioritate (ro) f
- Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), старшинство́ (ru) n (staršinstvó) (seniority)
- Slovak: prevaha f, nadradenosť f
- Spanish: superioridad (es) f
- Swedish: överlägsenhet (sv) f
- Tocharian B: pruccamñe
- Turkish: üstünlük (tr), rüçhan (tr), faikiyet (tr)
- Ukrainian: перева́га f (pereváha), ви́щість f (výščistʹ), старшинство́ n (staršynstvó) (seniority)
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