supreme
highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief.
of the highest quality, degree, character, importance, etc.: supreme courage.
greatest, utmost, or extreme: supreme disgust.
last or final; ultimate.
Origin of supreme
1Other words from supreme
- su·preme·ly, adverb
- su·preme·ness, noun
Other definitions for suprême (2 of 2)
Also called sauce suprême. a velouté made with a rich chicken stock.
Also called suprême de volaille. a dish prepared or served with this sauce, especially boned chicken breast.
Also su·preme [suh-preem, -preym, soo-] /səˈprim, -ˈpreɪm, sʊ-/ .
a bowl or the like designed for the serving of cold foods in an inner container that is nestled in cracked ice.
a dessert or appetizer served in such a container.
Origin of suprême
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How to use supreme in a sentence
He has enormous talent and supreme confidence, so much so that he was asked Tuesday whose iron game he might take to replace his own and replied, “I’m very satisfied with mine.”
Who can win the Masters, who can but won’t and who to pick in your pool | Barry Svrluga | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostWith Democrats on track to hold the House, albeit by a smaller margin, legislative gridlock will continue to reign supreme — regardless of who’s president.
For more than 30 years, conservatives have been using their legislative authority in the states to expand supreme courts, including recently in the states of Georgia and Arizona.
As a general rule, the supreme Court of the United States has the final word on questions of federal law, but state supreme courts have the final say on questions of their own state’s law.
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Schieffer and Wallace are supremely well-connected journalists.
Jon Stewart and 'Meet The Press' Would Have Been One Unhappy Marriage | Lloyd Grove | October 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRemember that a heartfelt, supremely uncomfortable a cappella rendition of 'These Eyes' in Superbad?
Michael Cera’s ‘true that’ Review: So Melancholy, So Cool, So Damn Long | Amy Zimmerman | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe monarch, the consummate PR, the head of the nation, had been supremely outplayed on her home territory.
If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak: It’s Time Royal Princesses Led Visible, Voluble Public Lives | Tim Teeman | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI had always thought of writers as supremely solitary creatures.
Any morsel of rationale for why the “supremely safe” Boeing 777 vanished is swallowed like a pill.
She ought to find me supremely foolish, and her silence was not even that of rancour; it was contempt.
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, filsThere were endless grades of distinction between the supremely wealthy and the absolutely poor.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisHe knew it to be an immortal thing, hidden behind the veil of mortal flesh that for the moment was so supremely dear to him.
The Creators | May SinclairBy dawn the feverish, excited sleeplessness in his brain had driven him on and on to one last, supremely fantastic impulse.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottSteadily the idea grew that peace and beauty were supremely good, that violence and ugliness were supremely evil.
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British Dictionary definitions for supreme (1 of 2)
/ (sʊˈpriːm, sjʊ-) /
of highest status or power: a supreme tribunal
(usually prenominal) of highest quality, importance, etc: supreme endeavour
greatest in degree; extreme: supreme folly
(prenominal) final or last, esp being last in one's life or progress; ultimate: the supreme judgment
Origin of supreme
1Derived forms of supreme
- supremely, adverb
- supremeness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for suprême (2 of 2)
/ (sʊˈpriːm, -ˈprɛm, sjʊ-) /
Also called: suprême sauce a rich velouté sauce made with a base of veal or chicken stock, with cream or egg yolks added
the best or most delicate part of meat, esp the breast and wing of chicken, cooked in suprême sauce
Origin of suprême
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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