Home › Words › O › overlingoverlingoverling means A superior.EtymologyFrom over + -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”). By surface analysis, over + -ling.nounA superior.e.g.“But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, …” — 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)A ruler; master.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).