super
part of speech
adjective (informal); adverb (informal: super easy); prefix (super-); noun (a super — short for superintendent or superannuation)
meaning for a pupil
1) Super means very good or excellent (informal). tree →
2) Super means very or extremely: «super fast». tree →
3) The prefix super- means above, more than or bigger than, as in superhero, supermarket, superstar. tree →
4) Super is short for superintendent, or in Australia and New Zealand for superannuation (savings for when you are old). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday speech and praise «super!» means great. In word study super- helps you work out meanings: a superhero is more than a normal hero. Phrases: «super cool», «Super Bowl», «super moon», «Super Mario».
examples
- D. (filii Dior) super 32 Semitis Sapientiae, a quibus liber Yezirah incipit. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- "Id est Liber Jezirah, qui Abrahamos, Patriarchæ adscribitur, unacum Commentario Rabi Abraham F.D. super 32 semitis Sapientiæ, a quibus Liber Jezirah incipit: Translatus et notis illustratus a Joanne Stephano Rittangelio Ling. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- That's a super drawing! tree →
- The test was super easy. tree →
- Superman is a famous superhero. tree →
- We had a super time at the beach. tree →
- The new car is super fast. tree →
- We buy our food at the supermarket. tree →
- A supermoon looks bigger and brighter. tree →
note
Informal; in formal writing use «excellent» or «very». «Super-» words: supermarket, supersonic (faster than sound), superpower, superstar. It is a fragment in many long words.
In the corpora
- An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran quickly, very tall, super fun.
- Super glue sticks skin together in seconds and can even glue eyelids, so only an adult uses it.
- C'est is ce plus est squashed together and means "it is" or "that is": C'est super !
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «super» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.