[ US /hiˈdʒɛməni/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛd‍ʒɪməni/ ]
NOUN
  1. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
    to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony
    the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system
    the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation
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How To Use hegemony In A Sentence

  • It is not a battle for territorial domination, ideological supremacy or economic hegemony.
  • It is not a battle for territorial domination, ideological supremacy or economic hegemony.
  • to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony
  • Driven by its economic crisis, it is attempting to reorganise the globe under its hegemony.
  • It fights for its own hegemony in literature; wherever it triumphs, the older genres go into decline.
  • We support those who maintain peace and oppose those who make war and who seek hegemony.
  • The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
  • American adventurism is primarily responsible for creating most of the terrorist organizations in the world, who rise up in opposition to US hegemony. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Before We Argue – Lets See If We Are Living In The Same Universe
  • Klassen discusses how the choice of the home simultaneously sacralizes the home as a space in which a deeply spiritual event can occur and challenges the hegemony of the medical paradigm which sees the home as a source of pathogens.
  • This fight against cultural hegemony and for self-realization is the essence of the feminist struggle.
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