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# supérieure

noun

«supérieure» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

57 uses in 3 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 57 of 57. By the class of the article: university 2, country 1. Most often with: «nationale», «des», «mine», «en», «d'ingénieur».

### Examples

- It generally employs the expression of "écoles supérieures" to indicate higher educational institutions that are not universities. — [Grande école](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_école), sentence 37 («wiki:Grande\_école:37»)
- Lettres: humanities, essentially for the Écoles normales supérieures (students can also compete to enter business schools, but represent a small minority of those admitted). — [Grande école](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_école), sentence 59 («wiki:Grande\_école:59»)
- Until recently, unlike most other grandes écoles, écoles normales supérieures (ENS) did not award specific diplomas. — [Grande école](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_école), sentence 123 («wiki:Grande\_école:123»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Grande école»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_école), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.