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Learned borrowing from Latin superbus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /suːˈpɜːb/, (conservative RP, rare) /sjuːˈpɜːb/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /sʉwˈpəːb/
• (General American) IPA(key): /suˈpɝb/, /səˈpɝb/
• (Scotland) IPA(key): /sʉˈpɛɾb/
• (Wales) IPA(key): /sɪʊˈpøːb/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
• Hyphenation: su‧perb

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.
   • 1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 April 2024:
     The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
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.

• excellent, superlative, world-beating

• superb fairywren

• superbity

• superb lily

• superbly

• superb lyrebird

• superbness

• superb owl

• superb parrot

• superb warbler

of the highest quality; exceptionally good

• Bulgarian: изключителен (bg) (izključitelen), превъзходен (bg) (prevǎzhoden), великолепен (bg) (velikolepen)

• Catalan: soberg (ca)

• Czech: znamenitý, vynikající (cs), jedinečný (cs)

• Dutch: eersteklas (nl)

• French: superbe (fr)

• German: großartig (de) m, superb (de)

• Norman: supèrbe m or f

• Polish: znakomity (pl) m

• Portuguese: soberbo (pt), extraordinário (pt)

• Romanian: superb (ro), excepțional (ro)

• Russian: отменный (ru) (otmennyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj), великоле́пный (ru) (velikolépnyj), превосхо́дный (ru) (prevosxódnyj)

• Spanish: excepcional (es), excelente (es), magnífico (es), superbo (es) (disused), soberbio (es)

• Swedish: storartad (sv)

• Volapük: süperik (vo)

• BUPERS, Repubs

Via French superbe, from Latin superbus.

superb (neuter superbt, plural and definite singular attributive superbe)

1. superb

Inflection of superb

| | positive | comparative | superlative | | | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | -- | | indefinite common singular | superb | — | —2 | | indefinite neuter singular | superbt | — | —2 | | plural | superbe | — | —2 | | definite attributive1 | superbe | — | — |

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

• “superb” in Den Danske Ordbog
• süperb

Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.

superb (strong nominative masculine singular superber, not comparable)

1. superb

Positive forms of superb (uncomparable)

• “superb” in Duden online
• “superb”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German)

Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.

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

1. superb