superb

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin superbus.

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Adjective

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superb (comparative superber, superlative superbest)

  1. First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
    This champagne is superb.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Captain Edward Carlisle [] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
    a superb edifice;  a superb colonnade
  3. (dated) Haughty.
    • 1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2, page 235:
      A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.

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Adjective

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superb (strong nominative masculine singular superber, not comparable)

  1. superb

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Further reading

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  • superb” in Duden online
  • superb” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.

Adjective

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superb m or n (feminine singular superbă, masculine plural superbi, feminine and neuter plural superbe)

  1. superb

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