单词 | predominance |
释义 | predominance (once / 4407 pages) n Use the noun predominance to describe whatever is most noticeable, like the predominance of a gigantic television screen in a small living room. When you notice that the word dominance makes up a big chunk of predominance, it won’t surprise you to learn that predominance is used to say that something exerts a strong influence and dominates. Sometimes that influence comes because of sheer numbers, such as a predominance of women in the teaching profession, but it can also result from superior power, such as a nation’s military predominance. WORD FAMILYpredominance: predominances+/predominate: predominance, predominated, predominately, predominates, predominating, predominatingly, predomination/predomination: predominations USAGE EXAMPLESAir Force One is less lavish but there is plenty of wood and leather and a similar predominance of beige and taupe. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) The victory was seen as highly important in the pro-independence SNP's gradual rise to its current predominance in Scotland. BBC(Dec 01, 2016) “Predominance in the curva is worth gold,” one journalist wrote at the time. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) 1n the quality of being more noticeable than anything else Syn|Hyper predomination noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness, patency the property of being easy to see and understand 2n the state of being predominant over others Syn|Hyper predomination, prepotency ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance the state that exists when one person or group has power over another |
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