OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 25062

Superman

/ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)mæn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Superhombre
A fictional comic-book superhero with superhuman strength and speed, X-ray vision, and the ability to fly.
But here's the big question: can this rip-snorting derivative lay 210 bhp down through its front wheels without forcing you to maintain Superman levels of grip on the steering whee…
[…] hoping against hope that she, with something like Superman's X-ray vision, might see through the photograph and behind it to the truth about Harris's architecture.
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Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 13053

superman

/ˈs(j)uːpəmæn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
superhombre
An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an übermensch, an overman.
Man does desire an ideal Superman with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find. His least incom…
Nietzsche wrote of the coming of the superman.
supermán
A man of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.
By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...…
[page 113] The idea of superman is as old as the world. Through all the centuries, through hundreds of centuries of its history, humanity has lived with the idea of superman. Sayin…
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