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Hegemony

He-gemˊo-ny

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Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] guide, leader, fr. [GREEK] to go before.]

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; – usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

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Definition 2024

hegemony

hegemony

English

Noun

hegemony ‎(countable and uncountable, plural hegemonies)

(formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force.
- ie: internationally among nation-states, and regionally over social classes, between languages or even culture.
  
  eg: The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.

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Translations

domination, influence, or authority over another

Arabic: الهيمنَة
Armenian: գերիշխանություն (hy) ‎(gerišxanutʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 霸權 (zh), 霸权 (zh) ‎(bàquán)
Czech: nadvláda (cs) f, hegemonie (cs) f
Dutch: hegemonie f, suprematie (nl), heerschap (nl), overwicht (nl), preponderantie (nl)
Finnish: hegemonia (fi)
French: hégémonie (fr) f
German: Hegemonie (de) f
Hungarian: hegemónia (hu)
Japanese: 覇権 (ja) ‎(はけん, haken), ヘゲモニー (ja) ‎(hegemonī)
Khmer: អនុត្តរភាព ‎(ak nut tak rak pheap)

Malay: hegemoni
Norwegian: hegemoni n
Persian: سلطه‌گری ‎(soltegari), فرادستی ‎(farâdasti), هژمونی (fa) ‎(hežemoni)
Polish: hegemonia (pl) f
Portuguese: hegemonia (pt) f
Russian: гегемо́ния (ru) f ‎(gegemónija), госпо́дство (ru) n ‎(gospódstvo), игемо́ния f ‎(igemónija)
Serbo-Croatian: hegemonija (sh) f, nadvlada (sh) f
Spanish: hegemonía (es) f
Swedish: hegemoni (sv) c, herravälde (sv)
Turkish: hegemonya (tr)
Venetian: egemonia f

External links

hegemony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
hegemony in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911