supermodel

See also: Supermodel

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ model. First written example dates from 1942 in the English language, in common use since the late 1980s. Sometimes incorrectly attributed to supermodel Janice Dickinson.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

supermodel (plural supermodels)

1. A highly paid, famous fashion model.
   • 2022 March 11, Sophie Lee, “How Kendall Jenner Became the Highest Paid Supermodel in the World”, in L'Officiel‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 February 2026:

     Kendall Jenner first earned the title of the "world's highest paid supermodel" in 2018 when Forbes released an article asserting that she had raked in $22.5 million that year.

2. (dated) A technological improvement over an invention's previous model.
3. (artificial intelligence) A model with greatly exceeding capabilities.
   • 2026 June 16, “The Mythos Debate Misses the Point”, in Optiv.com‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 July 2026:

     Across software development, vulnerability research, exploit development, reconnaissance, social engineering, infrastructure discovery and security operations, AI is already accelerating both offense and defense. We do not need a hypothetical supermodel to observe the trend. We are living inside it.

Derived terms

• supermodeldom
• supermodelesque
• supermodelish

Related terms

• model

Translations

famous fashion model

• Armenian: սուպերմոդել (supermodel)
• Belarusian: супермадэ́ль f (supjermadélʹ), топ-мадэ́ль f (top-madélʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超級名模 / 超级名模 (chāojí míngmó)

• Czech: topmodelka f, supermodelka f
• Danish: supermodel c
• Dutch: supermodel (nl)
• Estonian: supermodell
• Finnish: huippumalli, supermalli
• French: top model (fr) m or f, top-modèle (fr) f
• Galician: supermodelo m or f
• Georgian: სუპერმოდელი (suṗermodeli)
• German: Supermodel f
• Hungarian: szupermodell (hu)
• Indonesian: supermodel, adiperagawan, adiperagawati f
• Italian: supermodel
• Japanese: スーパーモデル (sūpāmoderu)
• Korean: 슈퍼모델 (syupeomodel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supermodell m

• Persian: سوپرمدل (supermodel)
• Polish: supermodel (pl) m pers, supermodelka (pl) f
• Portuguese: supermodelo m or f
• Romanian: super-modelă f
• Russian: супермоде́ль (ru) f (supermodɛ́lʹ), топ-моде́ль (ru) f (top-modɛ́lʹ)
• Slovak: topmodelka f
• Spanish: supermodelo m or f
• Swedish: supermodell (sv) c
• Ukrainian: супермоде́ль f (supermodélʹ), топ-моде́ль f (top-modélʹ)
• Vietnamese: siêu mẫu (vi)

See also

• fashion model
• model

Further reading

• supermodel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

supermodel

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

Polish super-

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *médos

Proto-Italic *medos

Latin modus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Late Latin modulusder.

Vulgar Latin *modellus

Italian modellobor.

Polish model

Polish supermodel

From super- + model.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.pɛrˈmɔ.dɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɔdɛl
• Syllabification: su‧per‧mo‧del

Noun

supermodel m pers (female equivalent supermodelka)

1. supermodel (highly paid, famous fashion model)

   Hypernym: model

Declension

Declension of supermodel

	singular	plural
nominative	supermodel	supermodele
genitive	supermodela	supermodeli, supermodelów
dative	supermodelowi	supermodelom
accusative	supermodela	supermodeli, supermodelów
instrumental	supermodelem	supermodelami
locative	supermodelu	supermodelach
vocative	supermodelu	supermodele

Further reading

• “supermodel”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)