"predominant" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/ Audio: En-us-predominant.ogg [US] Forms: more predominant [comparative], most predominant [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French prédominant. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|prédominant}} Middle French prédominant Head templates: {{en-adj}} predominant (comparative more predominant, superlative most predominant)
  1. Common or widespread; prevalent. Translations (common or widespread; prevalent): преобладаващ (preobladavašt) (Bulgarian), predominant (Catalan), převažující (Czech), vallitseva (Finnish), prédominant (French), predominante (Galician), túlnyomó (Hungarian), predominante (Italian), fremherskende (Norwegian Bokmål), przeważający (Polish), predominante (Portuguese), преоблада́ющий (preobladájuščij) (Russian), predominante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-predominant-en-adj-D7aS6EPM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 12 9 Disambiguation of 'common or widespread; prevalent': 94 6
  2. Significant or important; dominant. Translations (significant or important; dominant): доминиращ (dominirašt) (Bulgarian), predominant (Catalan), vallitseva (Finnish), hallitseva (Finnish), predominante (Galician), გაბატონებული (gabaṭonebuli) (Georgian), uralkodó (Hungarian), ardcheannasach (Irish), significativo (Italian), superans (Latin), dominujący (Polish), predominante (Portuguese), госпо́дствующий (gospódstvujuščij) (Russian), домини́рующий (dominírujuščij) (Russian), predominante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-predominant-en-adj-UnHf3u~m Disambiguation of 'significant or important; dominant': 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: prædominant [obsolete] Derived forms: predominantly Related terms: predominance, predominate

Noun

IPA: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/ Audio: En-us-predominant.ogg [US] Forms: predominants [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French prédominant. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|prédominant}} Middle French prédominant Head templates: {{en-noun}} predominant (plural predominants)
  1. (music) A subdominant. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-predominant-en-noun-Nhx1lVZg Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: prædominant [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.