Super vs. Supper — What's the Difference?

An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.

Supper was originally a secondary lighter evening meal. The main meal of the day, called dinner, used to be served closer to what is known as lunchtime, around the middle of the day, but crept later over the centuries, mostly over the course of the 19th century.

A superintendent in an apartment or office building.

An evening meal; dinner.

A supernumerary.

A light or informal evening meal, especially when dinner is taken at midday.

Very large, great, or extreme

A light meal eaten before going to bed.

Excellent; first-rate

A dance or social affair where supper is served.

Especially; extremely

Food consumed before going to bed.

Of excellent quality, superfine.

Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.

Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

(informal) Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).

A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

(beekeeping) superhive

To consume a snack before retiring.

, especially, a building's resident manager sometimes clarified as “building super”.

To eat dinner (see above).

(neologism) nodot=1, especially as distinguished from bright.

A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.

; (theatre) specifically, a supernumerary actor.

To take supper; to sup.

(beekeeping) superhive

To supply with supper.

(television) superimpose

A light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

A social gathering where a light evening meal is served;

A caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

Of the highest quality;

Including more than a specified category;

Extremely large;

To an extreme degree;