Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being predominant; preponderance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being predominant; prevalence over others; superiority in power, authority, or influence; domination; preponderance.
- noun In astrology, the superior influence of a planet; ascendancy.
- noun Synonyms Preëminence, etc. (see
priority ), mastery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.
- noun (Astrol.) The superior influence of a planet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the condition or state of being
predominant ;ascendancy ,domination ,preeminence orpreponderance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being more noticeable than anything else
- noun the state of being predominant over others
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Examples
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The military's predominance is the second major conclusion to draw from the Woodward account.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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The natural mixture of these humors determined an individual's temperament, most people having one or a pair of humors in predominance, which, in turn, determined psychological as well as physical disposition.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The assertion was that the environment that 'caused' the dark variety to gain predominance was evidenced in the genome.
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