Usually means: Higher in rank or position.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word superordinate:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. superordinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. superordinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superordinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. superordinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. superordinate: Vocabulary.com
  6. superordinate: Wordnik
  7. superordinate: Wiktionary
  8. superordinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. superordinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. superordinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. superordinate: Dictionary.com
  12. Superordinate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. superordinate: Rhymezone
  14. superordinate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. superordinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. superordinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Superordinate: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superordinate: Encyclopedia

(Note: See superordinated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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