superior general

1. 1.

   the head of a religious order or congregation

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Questions about superior general

What does superior general mean?

superior general means "the head of a religious order or congregation".

What is another word for superior general?

Close synonyms include general. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is superior general a common word?

superior general is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.