Supremacy
/suˈpɹɛməsi/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being supreme. uncountable, usually
- 2 power to dominate or defeat wordnet
- 3 Power over all others. uncountable, usually
- 4 The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them. in-compounds, uncountable, usually
"white supremacy"
- 5 A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society. in-compounds, uncountable, usually
Example
More examples"Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth?"
Etymology
From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.