ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsHhegemony
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hegemony
Meaning: leadership or dominance over others
hegemony in a sentence
How hegemony is used in real sentences:
The empire's hegemony lasted three centuries.
The empire's hegemony lasted three centuries.
“In practice, professional expediters established a quiet hegemony over the line, while missed appointments and unexplained delays made the waiting crowd fractious.”
— from the passage Waiting by Design
“Their hegemony over the county board had long seemed complete; one commissioner offered servile praise even as Mara displayed poisoned minnows.”
— from the passage The Ninth Spring
“Venn also recognized how the era's critical hegemony had narrowed her sight; a small circle of theorists determined which ambitions counted as serious.”
— from the passage The Late Correction
Synonyms for hegemony
Other words for hegemony — dominance, supremacy and authority — carry the same meaning.
- dominance
- supremacy
- authority
Antonyms of hegemony
Words that mean the opposite of hegemony:
- submission
Where it comes from
From Greek hegemonia 'leadership'
Memory hook
HEGEMONY — HEAD-MONY (leader of all).