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Definition of supreme in English: supremeadjective suːˈpriːmsuˈprim 1Highest in rank or authority. a unified force with a supreme commander Example sentencesExamples - All were open, written, sovereign authorizations by supreme authorities, and all employed a common medieval legal formula and language.
- Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
- The boyars and their fortified towns submitted to Samuil's supreme authority.
- The federal courts have long recognized that when it comes to waging war, the President, not Congress or the courts, is the supreme authority.
- He retired as supreme commander of the German armed forces in 1911, but re-entered the army in 1914.
- You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
- If you wish to attempt to do so, you must bear in mind that a dictator is a ruler having absolute authority and supreme jurisdiction over the government of a state.
- The concept of sovereignty - that national governments exercise supreme authority within their own borders - is the bedrock of global order.
- In international law, dating from 1648, sovereignty is described as supreme authority over a territory, free from all external control.
- Unity can be achieved only by maintaining a strict homogeneity of views or submission or subordination to a single authority, necessarily the supreme leader of the Communist Party.
- Most traditional African religions believe in one supreme being who acts through spirits and ancestors.
- It was also entirely possible, although I don't recall, that the president would also have to put his signature on a document as the supreme authority in the Niger regime.
- The commanders in chief exercised supreme authority in their respective zones and acted in concert on questions affecting the whole country.
- The army followed the Military Code, which allowed it a direct path of communication to the president as the supreme authority of the armed forces.
- Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
- No one author is considered the supreme authority.
- I think the Supreme Court, and indeed the Indian constitution, should be the supreme authority over interpretation of laws.
- The final third of the book is concerned with Ike's service as supreme commander.
- Would you be willing, as supreme commander, to share intelligence with Bulgaria?
- The 1945 Constitution stipulates that the President holds supreme authority over the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Synonyms highest ranking, highest, leading, chief, head, top, foremost, principal, superior, premier, first, cardinal, prime, sovereign directing, governing greatest, dominant, predominant, pre-eminent, overriding, prevailing - 1.1 Most important or powerful.
on the race track he reigned supreme Example sentencesExamples - There are two powers, young man, which reign supreme in human affairs.
- Tolerance and a diversity of people reigned supreme here.
- In the individual female competition, the Russian school, with its trademark artistry and excellent choreography, again reigned supreme.
- The door slammed behind her, and absolute silence reigned supreme for several moments.
- For 17 years, she reigned supreme in the speed department, and in the time of war, she could be converted into a troopship within 24 hours.
- Then, when the attack did come, confusion reigned supreme - and not just in the initial minutes, but for hours, days and years.
- Gunpowder reigned supreme until the invention of more powerful substances, notably nitroglycerin and its offshoot, dynamite.
- The underdogs reigned supreme as stars succumbed to fatigue
- Here, the living characters are largely dispensable whereas the curse rules supreme.
- In fact, Galen's influence reined supreme over medicine for 15 centuries after his death.
- Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!
- The dinosaurs reigned supreme for 135 million years, until another comet colliding with Earth took them out.
- By far the biggest indicator of slowdown of late has been the dip in the value of the dollar that reigned supreme for the past 10 years, as the US enjoyed its longest boom.
- My father was born in Laos in 1952, when the monarchy ruled supreme there.
- China would reign supreme in Asia with even Tokyo and Seoul kowtowing to Beijing.
- Matt Damon reigned supreme at the box office this weekend.
- Picture the world of the 1980s, a world where Reagan and anti-communist propaganda reigned supreme.
- By the mid-'60s, however, a different type of oppression reigned supreme.
- He reins supreme in every genre of entertainment ever.
- As long as the belief in progress reigned supreme people could not see this fallacy in the theory of evolution by natural selection.
2Very great or the greatest. he was nerving himself for a supreme effort Example sentencesExamples - It's a mighty piece of work and you should appreciate the supreme effort it's going to take you to get a copy of this because it is truly worth it.
- It takes a supreme effort from every player on a team to secure victory.
- The court must keep in mind that solicitor-client privilege is both a principle of fundamental justice and a civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law.
- I was lucky in that I already knew about half the people there, but it seemed very easy to wander up and talk to the ones I didn't know, primarily because of the supreme efforts of our host and his team of helpers to make us feel at home.
- The players put in a supreme effort and all the mentors and club members can be justly proud of their achievements.
- By a supreme irony, Pentheus is destroyed by the very qualities he denies.
- Men will compete for the most supreme anecdote, joke, incident, or put down.
- Rochdale's engineers made a supreme effort to help fight the war.
- I've always found it a matter of supreme irony that she shares my name.
- I knew that holding the candy in her plump little hands all that time without unwrapping it represented a supreme effort of the will for my incurably chocoholic daughter.
- Anway, thanks to the supreme efforts of all those involved, it went well, and people seemed to enjoy themselves.
- This could be because their problems are all going on inside their heads or they have made a supreme effort to hide their condition.
- The ground was drenched in rain and bombarded by hailstones until it resembled an ice-rink and it took a supreme effort from the ground staff to restrict the time loss to 90 minutes.
- He worked on productions with supreme confidence and authority.
- With a supreme effort of will, she forced herself to examine her surroundings through the haze of pain that threatened to pull her back to the shadows she had recently departed.
- York is one of a small number of English cities of supreme importance precisely because of its heritage.
- Coaches and athletes, some of them interviewed anonymously, say that after one supreme national effort, the hothouse intensity of the Chinese way will not survive the 2008 games.
- With a supreme effort of will, I manage to look away from the large mirror.
- The supreme irony of this is that there was a journalist in that crowd!
- The recipient summoned up the strength to write it down, even though it cost a supreme effort.
Synonyms extraordinary, remarkable, incredible, extreme, intense, great, phenomenal, rare, surpassing, exceptional, outstanding, incomparable, inimitable, unparalleled, unrivalled, peerless, greatest, utmost, uttermost, maximum severe, acute - 2.1postpositive Very good at or well known for a specified activity.
people expected the marathon runner supreme to win Synonyms very good, superb, outstanding, magnificent, of high quality, of the highest quality, of the highest standard, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, sublime, perfect, eminent, pre-eminent, matchless, peerless, first-rate, first-class, superior, superlative, splendid, admirable, worthy, sterling, fine - 2.2 (of a penalty or sacrifice) involving death.
our comrades who made the supreme sacrifice Example sentencesExamples - Their names are engraved in plaques on this monument, as are the names of our Aboriginal men who paid the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.
- Why should his supreme sacrifice for his country be fair game for those who would stoop to destroy the reputation of an American hero for mere political gain?
- Numerous reporters across the world have paid the supreme sacrifice for either trying to seek the truth or telling the facts.
- It is very important because this is one time in the year we all get together to remember those who paid the supreme sacrifice.
- We want to pay our tribute to those loved ones, those departed individuals who made the supreme sacrifice here on the basis of their opinions about how this thing ought to be handled.
- I can hear the sound of millions of bodies turning in their graves, having made the supreme sacrifice so we could enjoy freedom and democracy.
- The perpetrators of violence are ready for supreme sacrifices.
- If that turned out to be the truth, would that give you pause on any case you're handling, with regard to the supreme penalty?
- They would want to send more young men and women to make the supreme sacrifice.
- He was a flying officer before making the supreme sacrifice in June 1944.
- What is there to say to the anguished mother who asks why her child's death wasn't important enough to warrant the supreme penalty?
- She was making the supreme sacrifice of her life.
- Today many Western Isles villages are derelict as a result of war losses, including hamlets where some of my relations who made the supreme sacrifice were reared.
- Only Sir William Wallace demonstrated a single-minded resistance to English rule, for which he paid the supreme penalty in 1305.
- For our sake, they had left their families behind and society should be indebted to such supreme sacrifices, they noted.
- Many continued to make the supreme sacrifice in Korea and the Cold War.
- He takes along two companions - and from their heroic stance, we know, some of them are to make the supreme sacrifice soon.
- What drives them to leave behind all the pleasures of a settled life and make the supreme sacrifice for the nation without even the slightest of hesitations?
- When nations are engaged in deadly strife, it is common for patriots to declare that he who gives his life for defense of his country may be certain of a home in heaven because of having made the supreme sacrifice.
- This is my humble salute to their supreme sacrifice.
Synonyms final, last, ultimate utmost, extreme, total, unconditional, greatest, highest fatal, lethal, mortal
noun suːˈpriːmsuˈprim 1mass noun A rich cream sauce. - 1.1 A dish served in a supreme sauce.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Consider for example, the attributes ascribed to the Supreme Being, God.
- All that they require, by the way, is a belief in a Supreme Being - a monotheist god or absolute reality.
- They were led to obey the advice of their preachers in the name of the Supreme Being to whom were attributed all events.
- It is not easy to understand that various sects and religions are but the various ways to reach the same Supreme Being.
- It is true, she adds, that Buddhists, for example, don't believe in a distinct Supreme Being, but almost every kind of solemnizing expression will run afoul of someone's belief system, and we have to draw a line somewhere.
- There is ongoing interdependence between the living, the living-dead (those remembered by name), spirits and divinities, and the Supreme Being.
- It is a statement of faith in the power of a Supreme Being not subject to the laws of science.
- They profoundly know that the God they worship is the same Supreme Being in whom peoples of all faiths find solace and peace.
- Traditionally, Nigerians believe that there are two types of divinities: the Supreme Being, and the subordinate deities.
- Contrary to prevailing misconceptions, Hindus all worship a one Supreme Being, though by different names.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'highest'): from Latin supremus, superlative of superus 'that is above', from super 'above'. superior from Late Middle English: This came via Old French from Latin superior ‘that is higher’, from super ‘above’. The noun use meaning ‘person of higher rank’ is recorded from the late 15th century. Supreme (Late Middle English) is one step higher, from supremus ‘highest’.
Rhymes abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, team, teem, theme, upstream Definition of supreme in US English: supremeadjectiveso͞oˈprēmsuˈprim 1(of authority or an office, or someone holding it) superior to all others. a unified force with a supreme commander Example sentencesExamples - The 1945 Constitution stipulates that the President holds supreme authority over the Army, Navy and Air Force.
- Although still nominally subject to the eastern empire, Odoacer as a result became the supreme authority in Italy.
- Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
- All were open, written, sovereign authorizations by supreme authorities, and all employed a common medieval legal formula and language.
- Would you be willing, as supreme commander, to share intelligence with Bulgaria?
- He retired as supreme commander of the German armed forces in 1911, but re-entered the army in 1914.
- It was also entirely possible, although I don't recall, that the president would also have to put his signature on a document as the supreme authority in the Niger regime.
- In international law, dating from 1648, sovereignty is described as supreme authority over a territory, free from all external control.
- If you wish to attempt to do so, you must bear in mind that a dictator is a ruler having absolute authority and supreme jurisdiction over the government of a state.
- The army followed the Military Code, which allowed it a direct path of communication to the president as the supreme authority of the armed forces.
- The federal courts have long recognized that when it comes to waging war, the President, not Congress or the courts, is the supreme authority.
- The commanders in chief exercised supreme authority in their respective zones and acted in concert on questions affecting the whole country.
- The final third of the book is concerned with Ike's service as supreme commander.
- No one author is considered the supreme authority.
- The boyars and their fortified towns submitted to Samuil's supreme authority.
- Unity can be achieved only by maintaining a strict homogeneity of views or submission or subordination to a single authority, necessarily the supreme leader of the Communist Party.
- You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
- Most traditional African religions believe in one supreme being who acts through spirits and ancestors.
- The concept of sovereignty - that national governments exercise supreme authority within their own borders - is the bedrock of global order.
- I think the Supreme Court, and indeed the Indian constitution, should be the supreme authority over interpretation of laws.
Synonyms highest ranking, highest, leading, chief, head, top, foremost, principal, superior, premier, first, cardinal, prime, sovereign - 1.1 Strongest, most important, or most powerful.
on the racetrack he reigned supreme Example sentencesExamples - China would reign supreme in Asia with even Tokyo and Seoul kowtowing to Beijing.
- Picture the world of the 1980s, a world where Reagan and anti-communist propaganda reigned supreme.
- Gunpowder reigned supreme until the invention of more powerful substances, notably nitroglycerin and its offshoot, dynamite.
- The underdogs reigned supreme as stars succumbed to fatigue
- For 17 years, she reigned supreme in the speed department, and in the time of war, she could be converted into a troopship within 24 hours.
- My father was born in Laos in 1952, when the monarchy ruled supreme there.
- Tolerance and a diversity of people reigned supreme here.
- The door slammed behind her, and absolute silence reigned supreme for several moments.
- Matt Damon reigned supreme at the box office this weekend.
- He reins supreme in every genre of entertainment ever.
- By far the biggest indicator of slowdown of late has been the dip in the value of the dollar that reigned supreme for the past 10 years, as the US enjoyed its longest boom.
- Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!
- The dinosaurs reigned supreme for 135 million years, until another comet colliding with Earth took them out.
- Then, when the attack did come, confusion reigned supreme - and not just in the initial minutes, but for hours, days and years.
- By the mid-'60s, however, a different type of oppression reigned supreme.
- In the individual female competition, the Russian school, with its trademark artistry and excellent choreography, again reigned supreme.
- There are two powers, young man, which reign supreme in human affairs.
- As long as the belief in progress reigned supreme people could not see this fallacy in the theory of evolution by natural selection.
- Here, the living characters are largely dispensable whereas the curse rules supreme.
- In fact, Galen's influence reined supreme over medicine for 15 centuries after his death.
- 1.2 Very great or intense; extreme.
he was nerving himself for a supreme effort Example sentencesExamples - The recipient summoned up the strength to write it down, even though it cost a supreme effort.
- Rochdale's engineers made a supreme effort to help fight the war.
- Men will compete for the most supreme anecdote, joke, incident, or put down.
- The players put in a supreme effort and all the mentors and club members can be justly proud of their achievements.
- Anway, thanks to the supreme efforts of all those involved, it went well, and people seemed to enjoy themselves.
- It's a mighty piece of work and you should appreciate the supreme effort it's going to take you to get a copy of this because it is truly worth it.
- Coaches and athletes, some of them interviewed anonymously, say that after one supreme national effort, the hothouse intensity of the Chinese way will not survive the 2008 games.
- This could be because their problems are all going on inside their heads or they have made a supreme effort to hide their condition.
- With a supreme effort of will, I manage to look away from the large mirror.
- The ground was drenched in rain and bombarded by hailstones until it resembled an ice-rink and it took a supreme effort from the ground staff to restrict the time loss to 90 minutes.
- He worked on productions with supreme confidence and authority.
- With a supreme effort of will, she forced herself to examine her surroundings through the haze of pain that threatened to pull her back to the shadows she had recently departed.
- York is one of a small number of English cities of supreme importance precisely because of its heritage.
- I knew that holding the candy in her plump little hands all that time without unwrapping it represented a supreme effort of the will for my incurably chocoholic daughter.
- It takes a supreme effort from every player on a team to secure victory.
- The supreme irony of this is that there was a journalist in that crowd!
- The court must keep in mind that solicitor-client privilege is both a principle of fundamental justice and a civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law.
- By a supreme irony, Pentheus is destroyed by the very qualities he denies.
- I was lucky in that I already knew about half the people there, but it seemed very easy to wander up and talk to the ones I didn't know, primarily because of the supreme efforts of our host and his team of helpers to make us feel at home.
- I've always found it a matter of supreme irony that she shares my name.
Synonyms extraordinary, remarkable, incredible, extreme, intense, great, phenomenal, rare, surpassing, exceptional, outstanding, incomparable, inimitable, unparalleled, unrivalled, peerless, greatest, utmost, uttermost, maximum - 1.3 (of a penalty or sacrifice) involving death.
our comrades who made the supreme sacrifice Example sentencesExamples - Their names are engraved in plaques on this monument, as are the names of our Aboriginal men who paid the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.
- She was making the supreme sacrifice of her life.
- Why should his supreme sacrifice for his country be fair game for those who would stoop to destroy the reputation of an American hero for mere political gain?
- For our sake, they had left their families behind and society should be indebted to such supreme sacrifices, they noted.
- If that turned out to be the truth, would that give you pause on any case you're handling, with regard to the supreme penalty?
- What is there to say to the anguished mother who asks why her child's death wasn't important enough to warrant the supreme penalty?
- Many continued to make the supreme sacrifice in Korea and the Cold War.
- It is very important because this is one time in the year we all get together to remember those who paid the supreme sacrifice.
- This is my humble salute to their supreme sacrifice.
- Only Sir William Wallace demonstrated a single-minded resistance to English rule, for which he paid the supreme penalty in 1305.
- Today many Western Isles villages are derelict as a result of war losses, including hamlets where some of my relations who made the supreme sacrifice were reared.
- He was a flying officer before making the supreme sacrifice in June 1944.
- He takes along two companions - and from their heroic stance, we know, some of them are to make the supreme sacrifice soon.
- They would want to send more young men and women to make the supreme sacrifice.
- We want to pay our tribute to those loved ones, those departed individuals who made the supreme sacrifice here on the basis of their opinions about how this thing ought to be handled.
- The perpetrators of violence are ready for supreme sacrifices.
- When nations are engaged in deadly strife, it is common for patriots to declare that he who gives his life for defense of his country may be certain of a home in heaven because of having made the supreme sacrifice.
- I can hear the sound of millions of bodies turning in their graves, having made the supreme sacrifice so we could enjoy freedom and democracy.
- What drives them to leave behind all the pleasures of a settled life and make the supreme sacrifice for the nation without even the slightest of hesitations?
- Numerous reporters across the world have paid the supreme sacrifice for either trying to seek the truth or telling the facts.
- 1.4postpositive Used to indicate that someone or something is very good at or well known for a specified activity.
here was the gift supreme Synonyms very good, superb, outstanding, magnificent, of high quality, of the highest quality, of the highest standard, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, sublime, perfect, eminent, pre-eminent, matchless, peerless, first-rate, first-class, superior, superlative, splendid, admirable, worthy, sterling, fine
nounso͞oˈprēmsuˈprim 1A rich cream sauce. - 1.1 A dish served in a supreme sauce.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Contrary to prevailing misconceptions, Hindus all worship a one Supreme Being, though by different names.
- It is not easy to understand that various sects and religions are but the various ways to reach the same Supreme Being.
- Traditionally, Nigerians believe that there are two types of divinities: the Supreme Being, and the subordinate deities.
- All that they require, by the way, is a belief in a Supreme Being - a monotheist god or absolute reality.
- There is ongoing interdependence between the living, the living-dead (those remembered by name), spirits and divinities, and the Supreme Being.
- It is true, she adds, that Buddhists, for example, don't believe in a distinct Supreme Being, but almost every kind of solemnizing expression will run afoul of someone's belief system, and we have to draw a line somewhere.
- Consider for example, the attributes ascribed to the Supreme Being, God.
- It is a statement of faith in the power of a Supreme Being not subject to the laws of science.
- They were led to obey the advice of their preachers in the name of the Supreme Being to whom were attributed all events.
- They profoundly know that the God they worship is the same Supreme Being in whom peoples of all faiths find solace and peace.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘highest’): from Latin supremus, superlative of superus ‘that is above’, from super ‘above’. |