Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The predominance of one state or social group over others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Predominance; preponderance; leadership; specifically, headship or control exercised by one state over another or others, as through confederation or conquest: originally applied to such a relation often existing among the states of ancient Greece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
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- noun formal Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
- noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anthropologist Jeff Ferrell has suggested that while the term hegemony is often an overused term, when one talks about influence of the automobile on U.S. political economy, energy, and urban policy, such a description does not feel unreasonable.
Benjamin Shepard: New Yorkers: Fight the Bike Backlash Benjamin Shepard 2011
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Anthropologist Jeff Ferrell has suggested that while the term hegemony is often an overused term, when one talks about influence of the automobile on U.S. political economy, energy, and urban policy, such a description does not feel unreasonable.
Benjamin Shepard: New Yorkers: Fight the Bike Backlash Benjamin Shepard 2011
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The word hegemony has appeared in 73 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec. 25 in "Challenging Hip-Hop's Masculine Ideal" by Touré:
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2012
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Learn more about the word "hegemony" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2012
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Accordingly, the term hegemony will soon fade from the public lexicon, for good, as the term ... ldquo; superpower” itself evolves to ... ldquo; superblocks”.
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Yet some fools believe that slavery, domination, and hegemony is wrong.
Contentment 2009
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Yet some fools believe that slavery, domination, and hegemony is wrong.
Contentment 2009
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A return to a Cheney-based model of foreign policy that seeks American hegemony is incompatible with today's realities. awaitingliberalizationbyCNN
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Conversely, if they do pass it, the only deterent to socialist hegemony is something pretty close to an actual revolution.
Howard Dean threatens primary challenges on public option ‘no’ votes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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One explanation of Catholics 'and Jews' high court hegemony is that members of both traditions have long pursued legal degrees as a way to assimilate into a majority Protestant country.
Supreme Court may have no Protestant justices for first time in history 2010
Daveone commented on the word hegemony
Your pronunciation key is wrong for this word. The first 'i' in the phonetic spelling is NOT pronounced as an ee, but as a short 'i' It is almost a schwah.
November 8, 2009
trochee commented on the word hegemony
I agree with Daveone here that there's something wrong, but I would also point at the stress patterns:
in my idiolect, this should be /h?'??m?ni/.
The AHD recording given has a surprisingly tense high front vowel there in the front syllable, but agrees that the second syllable /??/ should take the primary stress.
November 10, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word hegemony
moral hegemony
October 7, 2010
mganley commented on the word hegemony
hegemonic discourse. Pronunciaton of hegemonic!
April 18, 2011