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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Predominance; preponderance; leadership; specifically, headship or control exercised by one state over another or others, as through confederation or conquest: originally applied to such a relation often existing among the states of ancient Greece.

Wiktionary

  1. n. formal Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
  2. n. Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἡγεμονία (hēgemonia, "supremacy or leadership, chief command"), from ἡγεμών (hegemon, "a leader, guide, commander, chief"), from ἡγέομαι (hēgeomai, "to lead"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek hēgemoniā, from hēgemōn, leader; see hegemon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • mganley hegemonic discourse. Pronunciaton of hegemonic! Apr 17, 2011

  • jwjarvis moral hegemony Oct 6, 2010

  • trochee I agree with Daveone here that there's something wrong, but I would also point at the stress patterns:
    in my idiolect, this should be /h?'??m?ni/.

    The AHD recording given has a surprisingly tense high front vowel there in the front syllable, but agrees that the second syllable /??/ should take the primary stress. Nov 10, 2009

  • Daveone Your pronunciation key is wrong for this word. The first 'i' in the phonetic spelling is NOT pronounced as an ee, but as a short 'i' It is almost a schwah. Nov 8, 2009

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