Supremacy

Definition: Supremacy

Supremacy

Noun

1. Power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supremacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Supremacy

Government

Command, empire, sway, rule; dominion, domination; sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty; lordship, headship; chiefdom; seigniory, seigniority.

Superiority

Supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; gr/trikumia/, climax; culmination; (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus; (remainder); (redundancy).

Crosswords: Supremacy

Books

• The Bourne Supremacy (reference)

• The Supremacy of Christ (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Air Supremacy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Circular Supremacy (reference)

• Whisper Supremacy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. (reference)

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To the mass, success has almost the same appearance as supremacy.

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Civil Liberties

Georgia

Some nationalist politicians continued to use the issue of the supremacy of the Georgian Orthodox Church in their platforms, and criticized some Protestant groups, especially evangelical groups, as subversive. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

In June, Zia proclaimed the supremacy in Pakistan of Shari'a (Islamic law), by which all civil law had to conform to traditional Muslim edicts. (references)

Italy

The Italian climate for U.S. software will continue to remain favorable as the market recognizes the supremacy and innovative quality of American products. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

The stated purpose of two military coups in 1987 was to ensure the political supremacy of indigenous Fijians and to protect their traditional way of life and communal control of land. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

In June 2000, however, the Supreme Court ruled that the Massachusetts Selective Purchasing Law violated the supremacy clause of the U.S. constitution, which holds that the federal government, not local governments, has the right to make foreign policy and regulate foreign commerce. (references)

Political Rights

Vietnam

All authority and political power is vested in the CPV, and the Constitution declares the supremacy of the CPV; political opposition movements and other political parties are not tolerated. (references)

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Expressions using "supremacy": air supremacy ♦ naval supremacy ♦ oath supremacy ♦ supremacy of law ♦ white supremacy. Additional references.

Ending with "supremacy": air-supremacy.

Albanian

epërsi (advantage, ascendancy, ascendency, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, preponderance, superiority, transcendence, vantage, weight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, preponderate, prevalence, seniority, superiority, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence), ‏سيادة (dominion, law, lordship, mastery, seigniory, sovereign, suzerainty), ‏سلطة القانون (rule of law). (various references)

Bulgarian 

господство (ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, empire, hegemony, lordship, mastership, mastery, rule), върховна власт (majesty, sovereignty, topside), надмощие (ascendancy, ascendant, dominance, grasp, hegemony, mastery, overweight, predominance), превъзходство (ascendant, cachet, excellence, excellency, odds, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotency, primacy, superiority, transcendence). (various references)

Chinese 

霸权 (hegemony), 霸權 (hegemony), 至高 (paramount). (various references)

Czech

svrchovanost (independence, independency, sovereignty, suzerainty), supremace, nadvláda (ascendancy, domination, dominion, predominance), autorita (authority). (various references)

Danish

supremati, overherredoemme. (various references)

Dutch

heerschappý in de lucht (air supremacy). (various references)

Farsi 

تفوق (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Influence, Predominance, Prevalence, Vantage), افراشتگی (Sublimity), رفت (Ply, Went), بلندی (Altitude, Eminence, Height, Lift, Loom, Sublimity), برتری (Advantage, Excellence, Excellency, Influence, Majesty, Power, Predominance, Preference, Prepayment, Primacy, Priority, Profit, Prominence, Trancscendent, Upperhand, Vantage). (various references)

Finnish

ylivalta, yliherruus (dominance), herruus (authority, domination, superiority). (various references)

French

suprématie. (various references)

German

Suprematie, supremat, vormachtstellung (ascendancy, predominance), vormacht, vorherrschaft (dominance, domination, hegemony, predominance, prevalence), oberhoheit (overlordship, sovereignty, suzerainty), oberherrschaft (dominion, sovereignty), Überlegenheit (advantages, mastery, predominance, preeminence, superiority, transcendence, upper hand). (various references)

Greek 

κυριαρχία (ascendency, command, domain, domination, dominion, reign, sovereignty). (various references)

Hebrew 

עליו� ות (advantage, dominance, meliority, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, primacy, superiority), עלאות (sublimity, superiority), ע�"יפות (odds, precedence, preferability, preference, priority, superiority), �"�'מו� י�" (domination, episcopate, hegemony, predominance), סמכות עליו� �". (various references)

Hungarian

fennhatóság (authority, control, suzerainty), fölény (advantage, ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, mastery, predomination, prepotency, pull, superiority, vantage). (various references)

Indonesian

keunggulan (predominance, primacy, superiority). (various references)

Italian

supremazia (primacy), primato (primacy, record). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

至高 (supreme), 至上権 (sovereignty), 至上 , 覇業 (domination), �"�配権 (control), 優越性 (predominance), 優越 (being superior to, predominance), 主権 (dominion, sovereignty), 制圧 (ascendancy, control, gaining total control, mastery, oppression, suppression). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"う (aim, carrying out, directional, draft of a poem, enforcing, execution, intention, liking, making an attempt, one's own thoughts or opinion, OO, personal conduct, preference, supreme, supreme filial piety, taste, thought, tooth tartar, waiting upon), しゅけ�" (dominion, sovereignty), しじょうけ�" (sovereignty), しじょう (annals, dentation, genuine feeling, historical, history, in a letter, in a magazine, in the newspapers, in the street, in the town, making lines, market, on paper, personal feelings, poetic interest, poetic sentiment, rifling a gun barrel, self-interest, sincerity, test drive or ride, tooth shape, trial ride), しはいけ�" (control), せいあつ (ascendancy, control, gaining total control, mastery, oppression, suppression), ゆうえつせい (predominance), ゆうえつ (being superior to, predominance), はぎょう (domination). (various references)

Manx

kiondeeaght (sovereignty). (various references)

Pig Latin

upremacysay

Portuguese

supremacia (ascendance, ascendancy, sovereignty), predomínio (dominance, predominance, pre-eminence, preponderance, prevalence, reign, squirearchy), hegemonia (hegemony). (various references)

Romanian

supremaţie, poziţie dominantã. (various references)

Russian 

верховная власть (sovereign power, sovereignty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrhovna vlast. (various references)

Spanish

supremacía (primacy). (various references)

Swedish

överlägsenhet (advantage, excellence, pre eminence, preeminence, preponderance, superiority, transcendence), överhöghet (primacy). (various references)

Turkish

yücelik (dignity, highness, largeness, loftiness, magnanimity, nobility, sovereignty, sublimity, the sublime), en üstünlük, egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, sway), büyüklük (ampleness, bigness, enormity, enormousness, generosity, grandeur, grandness, greatness, hugeness, largeness, magnitude, size, sovereignty, substantiality, superiority, vastness), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references)

Ukrainian

верховна влада (empire, overrule, scepter, sceptre, sovereignty), вищість (pre eminence), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, transcendence, vantage), панування (ascendance, ascendancy, dominance, domination, grasp, mastery, predominance, predominancy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quyền tối cao thế hơn, ưu thế (ascendant, ascendent, bulge, predominance, preponderance, vantage-ground, vantage-point). (various references)

Welsh

unbeiniaeth (despotism), uchafiaeth (ascendancy), goruchafiaeth (ascendancy, triumph). (various references)

primatum, primatus, principatu, principatui, principatum, principatus, secure, securem, securi, securibus, securim, securis, securium, securum. (various references)

Misspellings

"Supremacy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: supermacy, Supermec, supremancy, supremicy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: apercus, campers, scamper, scauper, yaupers.

-3 letters: amuser, apercu, camper, campus, capers, carpus, causer, causey, cayuse, cesura, cramps, crapes, creams, creamy, creasy, crumps, cymars, cypres, cyprus, escarp, macers, muscae, pacers, pareus, parsec, pauser, payers, recaps, remaps, repays, sacrum, saucer, scarey, scrape, scream, secpar, smeary, spacer, spacey, spruce, sprucy, yauper.

-4 letters: acmes, acres, amuse, apers.

+5 letters: hypermasculine, hyperuricemias, pachydermatous, parenchymatous.