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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power, major power, great power, power, superpower]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1920 1. excessive or superior power 2. a. an extremely powerful nation; specifically one of a very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically into these states and their satellites b. an international governing body able to enforce its will upon the most powerful states • superpowered adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a State of supreme power and influence, esp. the US and the USSR.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(superpowers) A superpower is a very powerful and influential country, usually one that is rich and has nuclear weapons. The United States could claim to be both a military and an economic superpower. N-COUNT

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