Superior
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Superior may refer to
- superior (hierarchy), in a hierarchical structure of any kind, a superior is above a subordinate and closer to the apex
- thus superior is the generic term, and in some cases the formal title, for the head of a monastery or other local unit of a religious order or congregation, e.g. Abbot and prior, while a General superior and a provincial superior, exercise a supervisory role in a religious order or congregation viz. a territorial part of it (called ecclesiastical province)
- "Superior" is commonly used as an adjective -- see [All pages beginning with "superior"]
- Standard Superior, a German automobile brand built in the 1920s that may have been a fore-runner of the Volkswagen Beetle
- Superior Coach Company, a former manufacturer of school buses and that currently builds hearses
- Superior, a progressive metal band from the Netherlands
Geographical locations
- Lake Superior, the largest of the North American Great Lakes
- Superior, Arizona
- Superior, Colorado
- Superior, Iowa
- Superior Township, Chippewa County, Michigan
- Superior Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan
- Superior, Montana
- Superior, Nebraska
- Superior, Wisconsin, city
- Superior (town), Wisconsin
- Superior (village), Wisconsin
- Superior, Wyoming
- Some inhabitants of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have proposed seceding from Michigan to form a new U.S. state called Superior (proposed state), although such proposals are not taken very seriously and are mostly seen as a joke.
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