supra

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adverb

Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.

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Meanings

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adverbsupra (not comparable)
  1. not comparablelawUsed to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.

    Antonyms: infra

  2. not comparableAbove, mentioned earlier in a text.

    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

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nounsupra (plural supras)

plural supras

  1. abbreviationclippingClipping of supranational.

    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

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nounsupra (plural supras)

plural supras

  1. A traditional Georgian feast.

    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
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbUsed to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.

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adverb(in writing) at an earlier place

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Origin

supra · adverb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Proto-Italic*superos
  5. Proto-Italic*superād
  6. Old Latinsuprād
  7. Latinsuprā
  8. Englishsupra

Borrowed from Latin suprā.

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supra · noun

  1. Georgianსუფრა
  2. Englishsupra

From Georgian სუფრა (supra).

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Translations

Greek σούπρα
  • σούπρα (soúpra)Georgian feast

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MLA

“supra.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supra. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supra,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supra.

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