noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being supreme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
supremacy
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/suˈpɹɛməsi/
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 P R EH1 M AH0 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Power over all others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds, uncountable, usually
Examples
- white supremacy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
power to dominate or defeat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- mastery of the seas
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: domination, mastery
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
Narrower terms: transcendence, transcendency, superiority
History
Etymology
From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun) — quality of being supreme
- Arabic: تَفَوُّق (tafawwuq) — quality of being supreme
- Belarusian: перава́га (pjeraváha) — quality of being supreme
- Belarusian: панава́нне (panavánnje) — quality of being supreme
- Belarusian: панава́ньне (panavánʹnje) — quality of being supreme
- Bulgarian: превъзхо́дство (prevǎzhódstvo) — quality of being supreme
- Bulgarian: госпо́дство (gospódstvo) — quality of being supreme
- Catalan: supremacia — quality of being supreme
- Chinese Mandarin: 霸權 /霸权 (bàquán) — quality of being supreme
- Dutch: suprematie — quality of being supreme
- Finnish: ylemmyys — quality of being supreme
- Finnish: ylivertaisuus — quality of being supreme
- French: suprématie — quality of being supreme
- Galician: supremacía — quality of being supreme
- Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba) — quality of being supreme
- Georgian: ბატონობა (baṭonoba) — quality of being supreme
- German: Vorherrschaft — quality of being supreme
- Greek: υπεροχή (yperochí) — quality of being supreme
- Greek: κύρος (kýros) — quality of being supreme
- Greek: κυριαρχία (kyriarchía) — quality of being supreme
- Indonesian: supremasi — quality of being supreme
- Irish: ardréim — quality of being supreme
- Italian: supremazia — quality of being supreme
- Japanese: 覇権 (haken) — quality of being supreme
- Korean: 패권 (paegwon) — quality of being supreme
- Macedonian: превосходство (prevoshodstvo) — quality of being supreme
- Macedonian: надмоќ (nadmoḱ) — quality of being supreme
- Plautdietsch: Äwahaunt — quality of being supreme
- Polish: supremacja — quality of being supreme
- Polish: przewaga — quality of being supreme
- Portuguese: supremacia — quality of being supreme
- Romanian: supremație — quality of being supreme
- Russian: превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) — quality of being supreme
- Russian: госпо́дство (gospódstvo) — quality of being supreme
- Spanish: supremacía — quality of being supreme
- Swedish: överhöghet — quality of being supreme
- Swedish: överlägsenhet — quality of being supreme
- Tatar: өстенлек (östenlek) — quality of being supreme
- Turkish: üstünlük — quality of being supreme
- Ukrainian: перева́га (pereváha) — quality of being supreme
- Ukrainian: зве́рхність (zvérxnistʹ) — quality of being supreme
- Ukrainian: ви́щість (výščistʹ) — quality of being supreme
- Ukrainian: панува́ння (panuvánnja) — quality of being supreme
- Vietnamese: bá quyền — quality of being supreme
- Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun) — authority over all others
- Azerbaijani: alilik — authority over all others
- Belarusian: панава́нне (panavánnje) — authority over all others
- Bulgarian: госпо́дство (gospódstvo) — authority over all others
- Czech: nadvláda — authority over all others
- Finnish: ylemmyys — authority over all others
- Finnish: ylivalta — authority over all others
- Galician: supremacía — authority over all others
- Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba) — authority over all others
- Georgian: ბატონობა (baṭonoba) — authority over all others
- Indonesian: supremasi — authority over all others
- Irish: ardcheannas — authority over all others
- Irish: ceannas — authority over all others
- Macedonian: превосходство (prevoshodstvo) — authority over all others
- Macedonian: надмоќ (nadmoḱ) — authority over all others
- Polish: supremacja — authority over all others
- Polish: zwierzchnictwo — authority over all others
- Portuguese: supremacia — authority over all others
- Russian: превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) — authority over all others
- Russian: верхове́нство (verxovénstvo) — authority over all others
- Russian: госпо́дство (gospódstvo) — authority over all others
- Sanskrit: क्षत्र (kṣatra) — authority over all others
- Slovak: nadvláda — authority over all others
- Slovene: nadvlada — authority over all others
- Spanish: supremacía — authority over all others
- Swedish: herravälde — authority over all others
- Swedish: övermakt — authority over all others
- Tatar: өстенлек (östenlek) — authority over all others
- Ukrainian: зве́рхність (zvérxnistʹ) — authority over all others
- Ukrainian: панува́ння (panuvánnja) — authority over all others
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