a country where the car reigns supreme (=is the most important thing)supremesu‧preme /sʊˈpriːm, sjuː- $ sʊ-, suː-/ ●○○ adjective 
the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe a country where the car reigns supreme (=is the most important thing)2[only before noun] the greatest possible: supreme courage in the face of terrible danger It required a supreme effort to stay awake. a matter of supreme importance3make the supreme sacrifice to die for your country, for a principle etc
WORD ORIGINsupreme
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin supremus ‘furthest above’, from superus; ➔ SUPERIOR1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Going in after the little girl was a supreme act of courage.
- the supreme commander of the fleet
- A political society can not endure without a supreme will somewhere.
- Amun-Re was the supreme state deity of the New Kingdom.
- It has become the supreme achievement for humans to convert themselves into a property that can be marketed with ease.
- It was an interesting event for she has a distinct voice in which melody reigns supreme.
- Rather, it was an expression of supreme confidence in the immutability of his creation.
- They give this supreme effort for our entertainment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a country where the car reigns supreme (=is the most important thing)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business.
a country where the car reigns supreme (=is the most important thing) She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business. (=the best of several impressive achievements)· Her appointment to the Paris post was the crowning achievement of her life.
(=a very big effort)· It was only with a supreme effort that Roger controlled his temper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The supreme achievement of art was his, the art of concealing art.· These comprise titles that are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative.· It has become the supreme achievement for humans to convert themselves into a property that can be marketed with ease.
· Under Luther the Bible alone had supreme authority.· Parliament is all-powerful, the supreme authority within the legal system.
· Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility.· Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being.
· Admiral Yamamoto, as supreme commander of the Fleet, was particularly conscious of this naval responsibility.
· Three vice-presidents were also elected, as were 20 members of a supreme council.· Executive power would be shared between the leading parties in a supreme council of three to five members.
· Gen Musharraf has promised to keep to a supreme court ruling that requires him to hold general elections by October 2002.· I could flip through a fifty-page state supreme court decision on deadline and call in a story from a pay phone.· The supreme court of Florida is welcome to them.· The state supreme court advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.· Bush's supreme court claim was an unexpected help in this respect.· Two of the five supreme court judges are white, including the chief justice, Anthony Gubbay.· This was the chief justice of the state supreme court!
· It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper.· They give this supreme effort for our entertainment.· The faint grating caused by that supreme effort was what Biff had detected in his beast-brain.· With the most supreme effort she had ever made, she thought of him as the patient.· But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes' advantage.· With another supreme effort I reached round and pulled the ripcord.· The outward calm she was managing to project was achieved only by a supreme effort of will-power.· He must either barge the door down or make one more supreme effort to leave the way he had come in.
· Luke uses this story as the supreme example of his theme of universalism.· Jane, the supreme example of self-control, did not know what was happening to her!· His landscapes were considered to be supreme examples of photographic technique, a number of them being published.
· In the administration of criminal justice the principle of independence from the wishes of government is of supreme importance.· Being small makes them portable, which is of supreme importance when you're traveling.· Finally, there is a contextual issue, briefly dealt with, but of supreme importance.
· For, in the spirit of constitutionalism, parliament is both accountable and the supreme law-making authority.· The supreme law of the land did not measure justice.
· The supreme leader is appointed by a body of experts who are elected by the people.· Under the constitution, the supreme leader, appointed by conservative clerics, has the final say in matters of state.· The present supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, displaced Montazeri as Khomeini's chosen successor in 1989.
· He was a high churchman for whom the sacrament of holy communion was the supreme moment of worship.· In the earlier volumes the supreme moment of love is experienced as loss of identity.· Ah, this was the supreme moment for a chef.· At this supreme moment in his plans, in his life, fate had suddenly dealt Jack a wild card.
· Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.· There were thoughts of grandeur and supreme power.· She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp.· When he finally grabbed supreme power for himself he continued to enjoy wary support from Washington.· He still believes that only through the Daleks can he achieve supreme power.
· We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.· He evidently thought his life was so valuable that some one would surely save it even at the cost of the supreme sacrifice.· You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.· These were people who showed courage, faith, and were an example to all by making the supreme sacrifice.· For her, the only supreme sacrifice would have been in giving up her husband.
· It was the supreme test Manville was aware of his back slamming against a wall.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1having the highest position of power, importance, or influence: - These were people who showed courage, faith, and were an example to all by making the supreme sacrifice.
- We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.
- You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.
- And it is not only in Washington that this belief reigns supreme.
- But from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1930s classical styles reigned supreme for all larger city stations.
- For dessert, fruit pies, cakes, fudgy walnut brownies and cookies reign supreme.
- His system of political patronage and agile intimidation of potential enemies reigns supreme in the economically depressed territories.
- It was an interesting event for she has a distinct voice in which melody reigns supreme.
- Not surprisingly, perhaps, those salad and sandwich platters reign supreme earlier in the day.
- The wide-cut style still reigns supreme over slimmer styles, and are easier to wear.
- Also there, Captain Oates, the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
- He evidently thought his life was so valuable that some one would surely save it even at the cost of the supreme sacrifice.
- In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice.
- These were people who showed courage, faith, and were an example to all by making the supreme sacrifice.
- This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony, but all the bees in the colony are genetically related.
- We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.
- You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.
the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe a country where the car reigns supreme (=is the most important thing)2[only before noun] the greatest possible: supreme courage in the face of terrible danger It required a supreme effort to stay awake. a matter of supreme importance3make the supreme sacrifice to die for your country, for a principle etc