What does "preponderance" mean?

Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

How do you pronounce "preponderance"?

Pronounced //pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns//.

Common synonyms include: prevalence, preponderancy, accomplishment, advantage, ascendance, ascendancy.

//pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

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Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion. countable, uncountable
"[S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements."
2
exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight wordnet
3
Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence. countable, uncountable
"In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed."
4
a superiority in numbers or amount wordnet
5
Greater physical weight. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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superiority in power or influence wordnet
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Greater physical weight.; The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. countable, historical, obsolete, specifically, uncountable