hegemony
[hi-jem-uh-nee, hej-uh-moh-nee]
- leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- leadership; predominance.
- (especially among smaller nations) aggression or expansionism by large nations in an effort to achieve world domination.
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Origin of hegemony
1560–70; < Greek hēgemonía leadership, supremacy, equivalent to hēgemon- (stem of hēgemṓn) leader + -ia -y3
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Contemporary Examples
People sent her bits of information as a way for them to resist the hegemony of the cartels.
The BRICS Bank looks, for all its founding rhetoric, like a platform for Chinese hegemony instead.
The schism in Wisconsin was the first crack in the Republican Party's hegemony.
After Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula in 1905, the conquerors sought to co-opt local pride to reinforce Japanese hegemony.
What interested me even more than the headlines was his little riff on the projection of American hegemony.
Historical Examples
Her seniors in point of time, they have been outdistanced in the race for Balkan hegemony.
BulgariaFrank Fox
There were papers from other planets now under the hegemony of Mekin.
Talents, IncorporatedWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
For very many years the European hegemony had been unquestioned.
Problems of the PacificFrank Fox
At one time Russia seemed destined to the hegemony of the Pacific.
Problems of the PacificFrank Fox
No; I will not agitate for extermination of the Government and hegemony over the Mob.
The SyndicC.M. Kornbluth
hegemony
- ascendancy or domination of one power or state within a league, confederation, etc, or of one social class over others
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Word Origin
C16: from Greek hēgemonia authority, from hēgemōn leader, from hēgeisthai to lead
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Word Origin and History for hegemony
n.
1560s, from Greek hegemonia "leadership, a leading the way, a going first;" also "the authority or sovereignty of one city-state over a number of others," as Athens in Attica, Thebes in Boeotia; from hegemon "leader," from hegeisthai "to lead," perhaps originally "to track down," from PIE *sag-eyo-, from root *sag- "to seek out, track down, trace" (see seek). Originally of predominance of one city state or another in Greek history; in reference to modern situations from 1860, at first of Prussia in relation to other German states.
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