"supremacy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /suˈpɹɛməsi/ Audio: en-us-supremacy.ogg [US] Forms: supremacies [plural]
Etymology: From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia. Etymology templates: {{af|en|supreme|-acy}} supreme + -acy, {{m|en|-cy}} -cy, {{m|en|supremity}} supremity, {{cog|NL.|suprematia}} New Latin suprematia Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)
  1. The quality of being supreme. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (quality of being supreme): 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun) (Aghwan), перава́га (pjeraváha) [feminine] (Belarusian), панава́нне (panavánnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), превъзхо́дство (prevǎzhódstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), госпо́дство (gospódstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), supremacia [feminine] (Catalan), 霸權 (Chinese Mandarin), 霸权 (bàquán) (Chinese Mandarin), suprematie [feminine] (Dutch), ylemmyys (Finnish), ylivertaisuus (Finnish), suprématie [feminine] (French), supremacía [feminine] (Galician), უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba) (Georgian), ბატონობა (baṭonoba) (Georgian), Vorherrschaft [feminine] (German), υπεροχή (yperochí) [feminine] (Greek), κύρος (kýros) [neuter] (Greek), κυριαρχία (kyriarchía) [feminine] (Greek), ardréim [feminine] (Irish), supremazia [feminine] (Italian), 覇権 (haken) (alt: はけん) (Japanese), 패권 (paegwon) (alt: 覇權) (Korean), превосходство (prevoshodstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), надмоќ (nadmoḱ) [feminine] (Macedonian), Äwahaunt [feminine] (Plautdietsch), supremacja [feminine] (Polish), przewaga [feminine] (Polish), supremacia [feminine] (Portuguese), supremație [feminine] (Romanian), превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) [neuter] (Russian), госпо́дство (gospódstvo) [neuter] (Russian), supremacía [feminine] (Spanish), överhöghet (Swedish), överlägsenhet (Swedish), üstünlük (Turkish), перева́га (pereváha) [feminine] (Ukrainian), зве́рхність (zvérxnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ви́щість (výščistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), панува́ння (panuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), bá quyền (alt: 霸權) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-supremacy-en-noun-eGMNdpad Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -acy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 15 10 17 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 80 5 6 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -acy: 77 11 6 6 Disambiguation of 'quality of being supreme': 92 1 5 2
  2. Power over all others. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (authority over all others): 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun) (Aghwan), alilik (Azerbaijani), панава́нне (panavánnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), госпо́дство (gospódstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), nadvláda [feminine] (Czech), ylemmyys (Finnish), ylivalta (Finnish), supremacía [feminine] (Galician), უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba) (Georgian), ბატონობა (baṭonoba) (Georgian), ardcheannas [masculine] (Irish), ceannas [masculine] (Irish), превосходство (prevoshodstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), надмоќ (nadmoḱ) [feminine] (Macedonian), supremacja [feminine] (Polish), zwierzchnictwo [neuter] (Polish), supremacia [feminine] (Portuguese), превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) [neuter] (Russian), верхове́нство (verxovénstvo) [neuter] (Russian), госпо́дство (gospódstvo) [neuter] (Russian), क्षत्र (kṣatra) [neuter] (Sanskrit), nadvláda [feminine] (Slovak), nadvlada [feminine] (Slovene), supremacía [feminine] (Spanish), herravälde [neuter] (Swedish), övermakt [common-gender] (Swedish), зве́рхність (zvérxnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), панува́ння (panuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-supremacy-en-noun-TLL0v2Qv Disambiguation of 'authority over all others': 7 75 16 3
  3. (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them. Tags: in-compounds, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-supremacy-en-noun-gZ-t-Kqa
  4. (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society. Tags: in-compounds, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-supremacy-en-noun-G67eawFi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: air supremacy, black supremacy, cissupremacy, heterosupremacy, papal supremacy, quantum supremacy, straight supremacy, supremacism, white supremacy, supremacist

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      "code": "xag",
      "lang": "Aghwan",
      "roman": "ixoyun",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎"
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      "roman": "pjeraváha",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перава́га"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "panavánnje",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "панава́нне"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prevǎzhódstvo",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gospódstvo",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "霸權"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bàquán",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "霸权"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "suprematie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "ylemmyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "ylivertaisuus"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "supremacía"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uṗiraṭesoba",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "უპირატესობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "baṭonoba",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "ბატონობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vorherrschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yperochí",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "υπεροχή"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κύρος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kyriarchía",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κυριαρχία"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ardréim"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    {
      "alt": "はけん",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "haken",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "覇権"
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      "alt": "覇權",
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "paegwon",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "패권"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nadmoḱ",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Äwahaunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "supremacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "przewaga"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "supremacia"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "supremație"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "превосхо́дство"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "överhöghet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "överlägsenhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "üstünlük"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "pereváha",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "перева́га"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "výščistʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "panuvánnja",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "панува́ння"
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      "alt": "霸權",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "quality of being supreme",
      "word": "bá quyền"
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      "code": "xag",
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      "word": "𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎"
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      "code": "az",
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      "word": "alilik"
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      "code": "be",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "nadvláda"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "ylemmyys"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "word": "ylivalta"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uṗiraṭesoba",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "word": "უპირატესობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "baṭonoba",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "word": "ბატონობა"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ceannas"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zwierzchnictwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "supremacia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prevosxódstvo",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "превосхо́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "verxovénstvo",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "верхове́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gospódstvo",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "госпо́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "kṣatra",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "क्षत्र"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nadvláda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nadvlada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "supremacía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "herravälde"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "övermakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zvérxnistʹ",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зве́рхність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "panuvánnja",
      "sense": "authority over all others",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "панува́ння"
    }
  ],
  "word": "supremacy"
}

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