# supreme

Pronunciation: say "suu-PREEM" US /ˌsuˈpɹim/, UK /ˌs(j)uːˈpɹiːm/

## Adjective

1. Dominant and holding power or authority over all others.
   - Simple: Having more power than anyone or anything else.
   - _The court holds supreme authority over every lower tribunal in the country._
   - _After the coup, the general declared himself supreme commander of the armed forces._
2. Greatest, most excellent, or highest in degree, surpassing all others.
   - Simple: The very best, the greatest, or the highest possible.
   - _She faced the final round with supreme confidence in her training._
   - _The firefighters showed supreme courage as they pulled the family from the wreck._

## Noun

3. A pizza heaped with a wide assortment of the usual toppings, for example pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and olives.
   - Simple: A pizza loaded with many popular toppings like pepperoni, peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
   - _She ordered a supreme with extra mushrooms for the whole table._
   - _Half the group wanted a supreme while the rest preferred plain cheese._
5. A breast of chicken or duck served with the wing bone still attached.
   - Simple: A piece of chicken or duck breast with the wing bone still on it.
   - _The recipe calls for a chicken supreme, leaving the wing bone on for presentation._
   - _He carefully trimmed each duck supreme before searing the skin._
6. A portion of food from which all skin, bones, and other inedible parts have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
   - Simple: A piece of food with all the skin, bones, and parts you don't eat taken out.
   - _The fishmonger prepared a cod supreme, taking out every bone and the skin._
   - _He ordered a supreme of sole, trimmed clean for easy eating._

## Verb

4. To cut away the peel, pith, and membranes of a citrus fruit and remove its seeds, leaving only the bare segments.
   - Simple: To cut a citrus fruit into clean segments, taking off the skin, white parts, seeds, and thin walls.
   - _The chef showed us how to supreme an orange for the dessert plate._
   - _You should supreme the lemons before folding them into the dish._

## Other meanings

- (noun) The highest point of something.
- (adjective) In botany, located at the highest part or point of a plant or plant structure.

## Origin

This word came into Middle English as suppreme, partly from Middle French suppreme/supreme and partly from its Latin source suprēmus, the superlative of superus ('that is above'). In the cooking sense it is partly an independent borrowing of French suprême. It is a doublet of supremo.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/supreme (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).