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• sur
  sur

  preposition

  upon; on the basis of.
• Sur
  Sur

  noun

  a town in S Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea: site of ancient port of Tyre.
• sur-
  sur-

  a prefix meaning “over, above,” “in addition,” occurring mainly in loanwords from French and partial calques of French words.

sur

¹ American  

[sur] / sɜr /

preposition

Law.

1. upon; on the basis of.

   sur mortgage.

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Sur ² American  

[soor] / sʊər /

noun

1. a town in S Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea: site of ancient port of Tyre.

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sur- ³ American  

1. a prefix meaning “over, above,” “in addition,” occurring mainly in loanwords from French and partial calques of French words.

   surcharge; surname; surrender; survive.

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sur- ⁴ American  

1. variant of sub- before r: surrogate.

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Sur ¹ British  

/ sʊə /

noun

1. transliteration of the Arabic name for Tyre

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sur- ² British  

prefix

1. over; above; beyond Compare super-

   surcharge

   surrealism

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sur- ³ British  

prefix

1. a variant of sub-

   surrogate

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Etymology

Origin of sur¹

< French < Latin super super-

Origin of sur-³

Middle English < Old French < Latin super- super-

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Example Sentences

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Magda, the manager, helps me with a goat cheese, Mothais sur Feuille, wrapped in a fig leaf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

These will be international commemorations and Prince William will go to a ceremony at Omaha Beach, Saint Laurent sur Mer, which is expected to be attended by 25 heads of state.

From BBC ● May 17, 2024

They noted that Edouard Manet’s avant-garde painting “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe” imitated Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving, “The Judgment of Paris,” which was itself a reference to a work by Raphael.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Le gros choc de Garnet Hathaway sur Connor McDavid qui n’a pas vraiment plu à Evander Kane !

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

The standard French translation of ‘evidence-based medicine’ is médecine fondée sur les faits.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Since Lip-Bu Tan took over as CEO in 2025, Intel has improved the competitiveness of its data-center chips, according to Sur.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Morgan analysts led by Harlan Sur wrote in a client note this week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Flooded streets following the arrival of Hurricane Polo in the town of Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, on 29 September.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Only a handful of homes and businesses in Puerto San Carlos, which is in Baja California Sur, had wooden boards up to protect doors and windows on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

As a sixteen-year-old he embarked on his first long solo trip, spending the summer of 1930 hitchhiking and trekking through Yosemite and Big Sur, ultimately winding up in Carmel.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

My physical, emotional, and spiritual beings were completely blending with the sur- roundings.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2021

Those  actors were paralyz- ingly dependent on aluminum, sugar,  coffee,  and  jet fuel for sur- vival, but were, almost  without  exception, unable to keep  up with the  commodity traders at banks  and  hedge funds.

From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014

Prison doctors stated that his sur- vival was doubtful.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Dr. Balfour finds that nine out of ten patients can sur- vive the operation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Papas can react very badly to sur- prisements, this I have seen, like when Signora Divino’s husband was a papa and his son said, “Papa, the car went into the lake.”

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

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