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say it: hee-JEM-uh-nee
hegemony is a noun meaning "the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others". It is pronounced /hiˈdʒɛməni/ — hee-JEM-uh-nee. It carries one recorded sense.
the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
“the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation”
“to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony”
“the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hegemony come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.