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/ˈoʊvərmən/ Listen

noun

Overman n. (pl. overmen)

One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.

An arbiter.

In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overman" Quotes from Famous Books

... the quality of their laughing—up to those who are capable of GOLDEN laughter. And supposing that Gods also philosophize, which I am strongly inclined to believe, owing to many reasons—I have no doubt that they also know how to laugh thereby in an overman-like and new fashion—and at the expense of all serious things! Gods are fond of ridicule: it seems that they cannot refrain from ...

— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche

... time-spirit, Woman, to a thoughtful eye, sits like the Sphinx above the drifting sands, silent, secret, powerful and obscure, bent only on her great purposive errand whose end is the bringing forth of that Overman who shall rule the world. With her immense biologic mission, seemingly at war with her individual career, and destructive apparently of that emancipation which is the present dream of her champions, what a type, what a motive this for ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

... one comes so well recommended, you know, by Mrs. Overman and Mrs. Grosvenor. You have heard of these ladies in society, no ...

— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... Mrs. J.P. Overman, of Elizabeth City, whose father, the late Dr. William Pool, of Pasquotank County, spent his boyhood days at Elmwood, then the home of his father, has given the writer a description of this historic house, as ...

— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson

... overman grimly, "that's what our lads weant believe in— your brometers, and pressures, and such like. They don't like to be teached by one who they say's ...

— Son Philip • George Manville Fenn