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Definition of superman in English: supermannounPlural Supermen, Plural supermen ˈsuːpəmanˈsupərˌmæn 1A US cartoon, TV, and film character having great strength, the ability to fly, and other extraordinary powers. Example sentencesExamples - It was kind of a combination of Superman, Batman, Santa Claus, and a rock band.
- They make Superman look geriatric and Batman slow to go.
- Is not the admiration of people of all ages for our Tarzans, Supermen, Lone Rangers and indestructible detectives the result of a love for romanticism?
- I grew up on Daredevil and Iron Man and Spider-Man and Batman and Superman and The Hulk.
- Superheroes Batman and Superman are set to go head to head in a new movie.
- Where else could you see Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, plus a slew of visitors from the DC Comics world, in the same place every week?
- He's Superman in black, with no Kryptonite in sight.
- But Superman moved away from Smallville, you say.
- The songs are B-side forgettables and the plot might have been written for a Superman comic 15 years after anyone gave a damn.
- With its mix of traditionalism, inventiveness, and healthy respect for the mythology, this is a Superman for all seasons.
- Yeah, there's a Superman graphic novel that's being drawn right now.
- It was one of the worst cases of special effects regression since the lesser known of the Supermen movies.
- Let's play fashion expert for a second and compare the new Superman to the old-school Supermen.
- 1.1a supermaninformal A man with exceptional physical or mental ability.
appearing in that number of races would have taxed the strength of a superman
2The ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, as described by Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5). Also called Übermensch Example sentencesExamples - For Nietzsche, Manu and his code of caste regulations became the basis for a theory of the superman, just as the brahmin and the Aryan fused to incarnate the notion of ‘pure blood.’
- Long years ago, at the very beginning of my writing career, I attacked Nietzsche and his superman idea.
- According to Nietzsche, man could be saved by a new type of man, the ‘Übermensch,’ the Superman.
- It could be the deconstruction of the myth of the Nietzschean superman.
Origin Late 19th century (in sense 2): from super- 'exceptional' + man, coined in imitation of German Übermensch (used by Nietzsche). Definition of superman in US English: supermannounˈso͞opərˌmanˈsupərˌmæn 1A US cartoon, TV, and film character having great strength, the ability to fly, and other extraordinary powers. Example sentencesExamples - It was one of the worst cases of special effects regression since the lesser known of the Supermen movies.
- Let's play fashion expert for a second and compare the new Superman to the old-school Supermen.
- Is not the admiration of people of all ages for our Tarzans, Supermen, Lone Rangers and indestructible detectives the result of a love for romanticism?
- He's Superman in black, with no Kryptonite in sight.
- Yeah, there's a Superman graphic novel that's being drawn right now.
- They make Superman look geriatric and Batman slow to go.
- Where else could you see Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, plus a slew of visitors from the DC Comics world, in the same place every week?
- It was kind of a combination of Superman, Batman, Santa Claus, and a rock band.
- Superheroes Batman and Superman are set to go head to head in a new movie.
- The songs are B-side forgettables and the plot might have been written for a Superman comic 15 years after anyone gave a damn.
- But Superman moved away from Smallville, you say.
- I grew up on Daredevil and Iron Man and Spider-Man and Batman and Superman and The Hulk.
- With its mix of traditionalism, inventiveness, and healthy respect for the mythology, this is a Superman for all seasons.
- 1.1a supermaninformal A man with exceptional physical or mental ability.
appearing in that number of races would have taxed the strength of a superman
2The ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, as described by Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5). Also called Übermensch Example sentencesExamples - Long years ago, at the very beginning of my writing career, I attacked Nietzsche and his superman idea.
- It could be the deconstruction of the myth of the Nietzschean superman.
- According to Nietzsche, man could be saved by a new type of man, the ‘Übermensch,’ the Superman.
- For Nietzsche, Manu and his code of caste regulations became the basis for a theory of the superman, just as the brahmin and the Aryan fused to incarnate the notion of ‘pure blood.’
Origin Late 19th century (in superman (sense 2)): from super- ‘exceptional’ + man, coined in imitation of German Übermensch (used by Nietzsche). |