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superman

[ soo-per-man ]

noun

, plural su·per·men.
  1. a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
  2. an ideal superior being conceived by Nietzsche who attains happiness, dominance, and creativity.
  3. a superior being conceived as the product of human evolution.
  4. one who prevails by virtue of being a ruthless egoist of superior strength, cunning, and force of will.


superman

/ ˈsuːpəˌmæn /

noun

  1. (in the philosophy of Nietzsche) an ideal man who through integrity and creativity would rise above good and evil and who represents the goal of human evolution
  2. any man of apparently superhuman powers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Superman

1
  1. A seemingly immortal, superhuman comic-strip character created in the late 1930s, who hides his powers beneath the persona of Clark Kent, a mild-mannered newspaper reporter. Only when there is a threat of danger — often to his fellow reporter and secret love, Lois Lane — does Clark transform himself into the caped hero with x-ray vision.


Superman

2
  1. An ideal of humanity found in Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche . The Superman, or Overman (the German is Übermensch ), is the single goal of all human striving, for which people must be willing to sacrifice all. It is doubtful that Nietzsche thought of the Overman as an individual person.
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Gender Note

See -man.
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Notes

Superman has been adapted for various radio and television series and a number of highly successful films.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of superman1

1900–05; super- + man, translation of German Übermensch
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Example Sentences

After the Second World War, the Ukrainian-born writer Vasily Grossman once argued that “the superman is born of the despair of the weak, not from the triumph of the strong.”

From Time

If you endo on your bike or superman on your skis, your Icon should be fine.

Sadly, the movie did so poorly it sunk any chance of a Superman 5.

Now, Superman is officially losing "The American Way" from his iconic catchphrase.

Long is a superman of sorts, the result of a genetic experiment that lets him live for hundreds of years.

Can you imagine Superman being handed over to a writer just a notch above amateur?

What this essentially means is that superman-wannabe white people do not see my people as their equal.

That all-American iconography has always been so potent in the Superman myth.

When she joins Batman and Superman in the Justice Society of America, she does so as secretary.

Marston wrote that Wonder Woman needed “all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.”

I dreamed for you a triumphal march of powerful harmonies, a genius, a superman, such as only you deserve.

To-day the Kaiser claims to have won the victory of "a superman."

These lashes are the vision of the superman, of the one who rightfully possesses strength, happiness, and liberty.

It is not beyond the imagination to believe that your Mekstrom Superman might live three times our frail four-score and ten.

And then it came to me that what I really wanted second of all was to possess a body of Mekstrom Flesh, to be a physical superman.

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