Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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
- n. formal Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
- 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
- n. Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἡγεμονία (hēgemonia, "supremacy or leadership, chief command"), from ἡγεμών (hegemon, "a leader, guide, commander, chief"), from ἡγέομαι (hēgeomai, "to lead"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek hēgemoniā, from hēgemōn, leader; see hegemon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Anthropologist Jeff Ferrell has suggested that while the term hegemony is often an overused term, when one talks about influence of the automobile on U.S. political economy, energy, and urban policy, such a description does not feel unreasonable.”
The Huffington Post: Benjamin Shepard: New Yorkers: Fight the Bike Backlash
“The word hegemony has appeared in 73 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec. 25 in "Challenging Hip-Hop's Masculine Ideal" by Touré:”
“Learn more about the word "hegemony" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.”
“Accordingly, the term hegemony will soon fade from the public lexicon, for good, as the term ... ldquo; superpower” itself evolves to ... ldquo; superblocks”.”
“Conversely, if they do pass it, the only deterent to socialist hegemony is something pretty close to an actual revolution.”
Howard Dean threatens primary challenges on public option ‘no’ votes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“One explanation of Catholics 'and Jews' high court hegemony is that members of both traditions have long pursued legal degrees as a way to assimilate into a majority Protestant country.”
Supreme Court may have no Protestant justices for first time in history
“Yet some fools believe that slavery, domination, and hegemony is wrong.”
“A return to a Cheney-based model of foreign policy that seeks American hegemony is incompatible with today's realities. awaitingliberalizationbyCNN”
“And US cultural hegemony is obviously a thing of the past, anyway.”
“One way to get Iran to think twice about hegemony is to peel Syria away from its close, and uncomfortable -- if you talk to Syrian officials -- alliance with Iran.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hegemony’.
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 112 more...
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Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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from phrontistery.info
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - international relations
ABM Agreement, accession to a co..., accession to a tr..., accession to an a..., achievement of peace, ACP-EC Convention, advanced technolo..., aerospace industry, African organisation, aggression, agreement, agricultural coop... and 851 more...
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GRE Study guide
Going through the Magoosh website, words I pulled from the verbal section. 2012.
magnanimous, correlate, anglicized, simulacrum, tantamount, obsequiousness, subterfuge, vehement, vociferous, benign, concomitant, veracity and 83 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1908 more...
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Vocabulary
Words I come across while reading.
talus, echelon, onanistic, cabochon, avocation, charnel, moue, portentous, prolixity, astringent, hoary, patina and 165 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hegemony.
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