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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 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.