super-, supra-, sur- +

A retirement, and usually with a pension, because of old age or infirmity.

Above and beyond the normal perception of hearing.

1. Admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: "She had a superb performance."
2. Sumptuous; rich; grand: "She wore superb jewels."
3. A reference to a proudly imposing appearance or kind; majestic: superb mountain vistas.
4. Of unusually high quality; excellent; such as, a superb wine, or a superb skill.
5. Majestic; imposing: "The cheetah is a superb animal."
6. Rich; luxurious; of the highest quality.

1. An unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem; excessive pride (personified as one of the deadly sins).
2. An unjustified assumption of superiority; arrogance.

Speaking in a proud, haughty manner.

Dispersal by several groups of biotopes or several fauna and flora habitats collectively.

Marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance, magnificence, or competence, (used as an intensifier): "Her voice is superbly disciplined".

1. A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics.
2. Any of various disease-causing bacteria that develop a resistance to drugs normally used to control or eradicate them.

If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a "superbug".

1. A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.
2. To process (paper) in a supercalender.

"A nonsense word" meaning "fantastic" which was popularized by the movie "Mary Poppins" starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke in 1964.

Roots of the word have been defined as: super-, "above"; cali-, "beauty"; fragilistic-, "delicate"; expeali-, "to atone"; and docious-, "educable"; with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty".

Part of the lyrics of the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", sung by Julie Andrews

Written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

1. A merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
2. Etymology: alteration of Spanish sobrecargo, sobre-, "over" + cargo, "goods carried as freight by sea, road, or air".

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus (carpal bones).

The carpal bones consist of eight bones arranged in two rows that articulate proximally with the radius and indirectly with the ulna, and distally with the five metacarpal bones; in domestic mammals, the bones of the proximal row are called radial, intermediate, ulnar, and accessory, while those of the distal row are termed first, second, third, and fourth carpal bones.

The use of cavitation effects to create a large bubble of gas inside a liquid, allowing an object to travel at great speed through the liquid by being wholly enveloped by the bubble.

The cavity (the bubble) reduces the drag on the object and this makes supercavitation an advantageous technology

1. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
2. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven.

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians.

About one supercentenarian in fifteen lives to 114 years or more. The term has been around from around the 1970s and was further popularized in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their book Generations.

Early references tend to mean simply "someone well over 100" but the 110-and-over cutoff is apparently the accepted criterion by demographers.