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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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

[Greek hēgemoniā, from hēgemōn, leader; see hegemon.]

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From Ancient Greek ἡγεμονία (hēgemonia, "supremacy or leadership, chief command"), from ἡγεμών (hegemon, "a leader, guide, commander, chief"), from ἡγέομαι (hēgeomai, "to lead").

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  • 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

  • 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

  • moral hegemony

    October 7, 2010

  • hegemonic discourse. Pronunciaton of hegemonic!

    April 18, 2011