Supra Meaning
/sˈuprə/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advUsed to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.
advAbove, mentioned earlier in a text.
Sentence Examples
The word 'supra' is often used in legal texts to refer to something above.
Decision supra establishes a precedent that we must follow in this case.
The author references the case cited supra in the footnote.
CEFR Practice Quiz
In the diagram, the ____ part shows the most important information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The term ____ is often used in legal writing to refer to a piece of information mentioned earlier in the text today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Proto-Italic *superos Proto-Italic *superād Old Latin suprād Latin suprābor. English supra Borrowed from Latin suprā.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work."
— 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
"This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras."
— 2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147:
"When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality."
— 2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125:
"We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated."
— 2011, Paul Manning, Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City”, in Tsypylma Darieva et al., editors, Urban Spaces after Socialism, 279:
"The supra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost^([sic]) attention."
— 2013, Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, chapter i, 14:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In the diagram, the ____ part shows the most important information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The term ____ is often used in legal writing to refer to a piece of information mentioned earlier in the text today.