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noun, plural he·gem·o·nies.leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. leadership; predominance. (especially among smaller nations) aggression or expansionism by large nations in an effort to achieve world domination. Origin of hegemony1560–70; <Greek hēgemonía leadership, supremacy, equivalent to hēgemon- (stem of hēgemṓn) leader + -ia-y3 OTHER WORDS FROM hegemonyheg·e·mon·ic [hej-uh-mon-ik], /ˌhɛdʒ əˈmɒn ɪk/, heg·e·mon·i·cal, adjectivean·ti·he·gem·o·ny, noun, plural an·ti·he·gem·o·nies, adjectiveWords nearby hegemonyHegelian dialectic, Hegelianism, hegemon, hegemonic, hegemonism, hegemony, Hegglin's anomaly, Hegira, hegumen, heh, he-huckleberry Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hegemonyPeople sent her bits of information as a way for them to resist the hegemony of the cartels. She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder.|Jason McGahan|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST The BRICS Bank looks, for all its founding rhetoric, like a platform for Chinese hegemony instead. John Kerry Just Visited. But Should We Just Forget About India?|Tunku Varadarajan|August 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST The schism in Wisconsin was the first crack in the Republican Party's hegemony. The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics|Michael Wolraich|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST After Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula in 1905, the conquerors sought to co-opt local pride to reinforce Japanese hegemony. Such a Sweet Little Dictator: Kim Jong-un and North Korea’s Child Cult|Scott Bixby|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What interested me even more than the headlines was his little riff on the projection of American hegemony. Obama’s U.N. Speech|Michael Tomasky|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST This question will still remain: Who has the hegemony in the government and through it in the country? Our Revolution|Leon Trotzky After the Hannibalic war, Roman hegemony in Italy began to pass into domination. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913|Evelyn Baring In a word, it is to be the hegemony of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference|Emile Joseph Dillon Germany never has had the least thought of assuming for herself the European hegemony, much less the rulership of the world. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1|Various Brazilian statesmen might well have been pardoned if, in 1865, they had claimed for their country the hegemony of South America. The South American Republics Part I of II|Thomas C. Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for hegemony
noun plural -niesascendancy or domination of one power or state within a league, confederation, etc, or of one social class over others Derived forms of hegemonyhegemonic (ˌhɛɡəˈmɒnɪk), adjectiveWord Origin for hegemonyC16: from Greek hēgemonia authority, from hēgemōn leader, from hēgeisthai to lead Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hegemonypredominance, leadership, command, power, authority |