hegemony
pronunciation
How to pronounce hegemony in British English:
UK [hɪˈdʒeməni]
How to pronounce hegemony in American English:
US [hɪˈdʒemoʊni]
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- Noun:
- the domination of one state over its allies
Word Origin
- hegemony
- hegemony: [16] Hegemony ‘dominating influence of one nation over another’ etymologically denotes ‘leadership’. It was borrowed from Greek hēgemoníā ‘authority, rule’, a derivative of the verb hegeisthai ‘lead’ (to which English seek is distantly related).=> seek
- hegemony (n.)
- 1560s, from Greek hegemonia "leadership, a leading the way, a going first;" also "the authority or sovereignty of one city-state over a number of others," as Athens in Attica, Thebes in Boeotia; from hegemon "leader," from hegeisthai "to lead," perhaps originally "to track down," from PIE *sag-eyo-, from root *sag- "to seek out, track down, trace" (see seek). Originally of predominance of one city state or another in Greek history; in reference to modern situations from 1860, at first of Prussia in relation to other German states.
Example
- 1. Us hegemony survived the exaggerated threat from japan .
- 2. But hamas 's hegemony is now under threat .
- 3. But incursions into africa by other bric companies are already threatening that hegemony .
- 4. The implication is of others ganging up against the benevolence of us hegemony .
- 5. Not long ago , many in washington imagined a permanent us hegemony .