hegemony
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9.5
- noun
- /hɪˈdʒɛməni/
- Formal
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hegemonía
- As an instrument of cultural hegemony, the English Shakespeare industry maintains an immediate relationship to the state.
- masculine hegemony
- cultural hegemony
- ideological hegemony
The Aztec religion was no more fundamental after the Spanish hegemony, so it lost its fundamental purpose.
- The Aztec religion was no more fundamental after the Spanish hegemony, so it lost its fundamental purpose.
- It was all somehow grander, more in the old spirit than the actual world, the world of German hegemony.
- And their notion is that they are saving people who are living under the power of the white hegemony.
- That is the hegemony of white people over black people, and the city becomes a phenomenally important instrument.
- But basically if anybody threatens this sort of dollar hegemony on oil, they will get a military response most likely of some kind.
- And so they create a trading block to further reduce the the hegemony that the dollar has in trade.
- In other words, the drugs cause the addiction that's been part of the the hegemony, the the dominant view for a long time.
- So settlement, incorporation, exploitation, and then and then finally cultural hegemony.
- I don't have, I think these people who try to stop us and what we say have power without hegemony.
Examples
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Will one interpretive approach gain global hegemony among classical scholars?
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That is the hegemony of white people over black people, and the city becomes a phenomenally important instrument.
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And just like that, the West hegemony is replaced by the East.
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And so they create a trading block to further reduce the the hegemony that the dollar has in trade.
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Clearly, the euro could pose an important challenge to the hegemony of the dollar in global finance.
Academic text (1999) -
The emerging global system is likely neither to be based on American hegemony nor derived from genuine international harmony.
Academic text (1991) -
Soon, rising powers such as England, the Dutch Republic and France would begin to challenge Iberian hegemony over the New World.
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Vedrine called on Europe to stand against U.S. hegemony partly as a defense against the spread of Americanism.
Academic text (2008) -
The goal of the allied powers was to dissolve the territorial hegemony of the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman empires.
Academic text (1990) -
The dominance of American cultural values has led to a global hegemony that affects many nations.
Synonyms
102
4.7
To have power or control over other people
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5.1
Power and control over other people or groups
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7.1
Being higher than others in power or importance
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8.2
A position of power over other people or groups
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7.9
Being better than others in an area, like skill or success
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7.8
To have power or control over others
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7.8
A situation when one person or group has more power and influence
Having power over other people or groups
One thing that is more powerful or common than others
A ruler's supreme control over other rulers and lands
Antonyms
How Dominant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hegemony comes from the Greek word hegemon, which means 'leader'. So hegemony is when one group or country has the power or leadership over others.