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Definition: Hegemony |
HegemonyNoun1. The domination of one state over its allies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hegemony" was first used: 1567. (references) |
Etymology: Hegemony \He*gem`o*ny\, noun. [from Greek expression, from guide, leader, from to go before.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Hegemony (g hard). The hegemony of nations. The leadership. (Greek, hegemonia, from ago, to lead.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The word has been used to describe periods in ancient Greek history, and also in more recent times to describe regional domination by local powers, and is used to describe the United States' role as the sole superpower in the modern world.
to be written: the idea of "hegemony" in Marxist theory.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hegemony."
Crosswords: Hegemony |
| English words defined with "hegemony": Inca. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Siemens and Nokia want to break Ericsson's present hegemony in wireless technology. (references) | |
Economic History | Panama | During the 1950s, the Panamanian military began to challenge the oligarchy's political hegemony. (references) |
Laos | In the late 18th century, the Siamese (Thai) established hegemony over much of what is now Laos. (references) | |
Pakistan | The largest religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), abandoned the alliance because of its perception of PML hegemony. (references) | |
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| "Hegemony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Hegemony" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.7% | 329 | 15,846 |
| Noun (common) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hegemony": counter-hegemony. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hegemony | 55 |
gramsci hegemony | 7 |
definition hegemony | 6 |
american hegemony | 5 |
define hegemony | 4 |
hegemony us | 3 |
hegemony marx | 3 |
cultural hegemony | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "hegemony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hegjemoni, dominim (dominion, prominence, prominency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hold, mastery, overriding, predominance, predomination, prevalence, reign, restraint, rule, ruling, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хегемония, господство (ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, empire, lordship, mastership, mastery, rule, supremacy), водачество (headship, helm, leadership), надмощие (ascendancy, ascendant, dominance, grasp, mastery, overweight, predominance, supremacy), първенство (anteriority, pas, precedence, primacy, priority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 霸权 (supremacy), 霸權 (supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hegemonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hegemonia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hégémonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorherrschaft (dominance, domination, predominance, prevalence, supremacy), hegemonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηγεμονία (domination, leadership, princedom, principality, principate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ "י'ות (leadership), "'מו י" (domination, episcopate, predominance, supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | uralom (domain, domination, dominion, empire, mastery, raj, regime, reign, rule, suzerainty, sway), fennsõbbség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kekuasaan (authorization, clout, dominance, domination, power, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | egemonia (dominion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 覇権 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ヘゲモニー , しゅどうけ" (initiative, leadership), はけ" (dispatch, send). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kioneys (command, dominance, domination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egemonyhay vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, Hale, hard cover book, healthful, healthy, lively, lusty, nervous breakdown, nervy, peppy, pitiable, racy, red blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, Venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy). (various references) hegemonie. (various references) гегемония. (various references) hegemonija. (various references) hegemonía. (various references) herravälde (command, dominance, dominanse, domination, dominion, hold, lordship, mastery), hegemoni, ledning (cable, captaincy, captainship, circuit, conduct, conduction, direction, directorship, duct, governance, guidance, guide, head, lead, leadership, line, management, pipe, wire). (various references) ความมีอำนาจ (คำทางการ). (various references) hegemonya, egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, domination, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references) gegemoniяa (r). (various references) гегемонія. (various references) quyền lânh đạo, quyền bá chủ (suzerainty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hegemonia. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Hegemony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egemony, hagemony, hedgemony, hegemeny, hegemnoy, hegemon, hegemoney, hegenomy, hegimony, hegmony, hegomony, hegymony, hehemony, Helgason, Helgeson, hemegony, heremony, hrgemony. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hegemony" (pronounced hēje"munē) |
| 4 | -m u n ē | disharmony, harmony, hominy, simony. |
| 3 | -u n ē | aborigine, accompany, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, larceny, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, Saxony, scrutiny, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-m-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: genome, yeomen. | |
-3 letters: enemy, genom, gnome, homey, honey, hymen, money, yogee. | |
-4 letters: eyen, eyne, gene, ghee, gone, heme, home, homy, hone, hong, hymn, meno, mony, neem, nome, ogee, omen, yogh. | |
-5 letters: ego, eme, eng, eon, eye, gee, gem, gen, gey, goy, gym, hem, hen, hey, hoe, hog, hon, hoy, meg, men, mho, mog, mon, nee, nog, noh, nom, ohm, one, yeh, yen, yom, yon. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-m-n-o-y" | |
+3 letters: homogeneity. | |
+5 letters: homogeneously, inhomogeneity, phenomenology. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 67 65 6D 6F 6E 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100111 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e g e m o n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0067 0065 006D 006F 006E 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271737179818091 |
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