- highest in rank or position
- the Supreme Commander of the armed forces
- the supreme champion
- It is an event in which she reigns supreme.
- very great or the greatest in degree
- to make the supreme sacrifice (= die for what you believe in)
- a supreme effort
- She smiled with supreme confidence.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘highest’): from Latin supremus, superlative of superus ‘that is above’, from super ‘above’.
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