supergroup
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: superset (often synonymous), superclass, supercategory"
- "Formally, a supergroup is a more general notion than group. We illustrate the difference between the two notions by a simple example."
- "In 1974, David Geffen, Asylum's main man, applied his negotiating abilities to creating a country-rock supergroup along the lines of Crosby, Stills & Nash."
- "A supergroup is a rock and pop music term for a group whose members are already successful and well known, either as solo performers or part of other groups. It was first applied in 1968, to Cream, whose three members had already achieved prominence, […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. Italian gruppobor. English group English supergroup From super- + group.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.