super

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.
• noun A superintendent in an apartment or office building.
• noun A supernumerary.
• adjective Very large, great, or extreme.
• adjective Excellent; first-rate.
• adverb Especially; extremely.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One of the medium or middle sorts of a fleece of wool.
• noun An abbreviation of superior
• noun of superfine.
• noun A supernumerary; specifically, a supernumerary actor.
• noun A superhive. See bar super, under bar.
• noun A superintendent.
• noun A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘over, above, beyond’: equivalent to hyper- of Greek origin, or over- of English origin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Theatrical Cant A contraction of supernumerary, in sense 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Of excellent quality, superfine.
• adjective better than average, better than usual; wonderful.
• adverb informal Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
• noun informal, Northeastern US Abbreviation of superintendent in the sense of a building's resident manager, sometimes clarified as "building super".
• noun Australia, New Zealand, informal, uncountable Short form of superannuation, the Australian/New Zealand retirement benefits or pension scheme.
• noun beekeeping An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
• verb beekeeping To add or to place a super atop the existing boxes of the beehive.
• noun comics, slang superhero.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adverb to an extreme degree
• adjective of the highest quality
• adjective including more than a specified category
• adjective extremely large
• noun a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector