supremacy

English

Etymology

From supreme +‎ -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈpɹɛməsi/

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• Hyphenation: su‧prem‧a‧cy

Noun

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

1. The quality of being supreme.
2. Power over all others.
3. (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.

   white supremacy

   • 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 139:

     Fighting a war against Hitler's Nazi ideology, with its doctrine of Aryan supremacy and its "final solution" to protect against an "inferior people," accentuated the final irony of an America fighting a racist ideology while trying to keep its own racist ideology intact.

4. (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

Derived terms

• air supremacy
• black supremacy
• cissupremacy
• heterosupremacy
• papal supremacy
• quantum supremacy
• straight supremacy
• supremacism
• white supremacy

 

Derived terms

• supremacist
• supremacism

Descendants

• → French: suprématie
  • → Galician: supremacía
  • → Italian: supremazia
  • → Polish: supremacja
  • → Portuguese: supremacia
  • → Romanian: supremație
  • → Spanish: supremacía

Translations

quality of being supreme

• Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun)
• Belarusian: перава́га f (pjeraváha), панава́нне n (panavánnje)
• Bulgarian: превъзхо́дство (bg) n (prevǎzhódstvo), госпо́дство (bg) n (gospódstvo)
• Catalan: supremacia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霸權／霸权 (zh) (bàquán)

• Dutch: suprematie (nl) f
• Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivertaisuus
• French: suprématie (fr) f
• Galician: supremacía f
• Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
• German: Vorherrschaft (de) f
• Greek: υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí), κύρος (el) n (kýros), κυριαρχία (el) f (kyriarchía)
• Irish: ardréim f
• Italian: supremazia (it) f
• Japanese: 覇権 (ja) (はけん, haken)
• Korean: 패권(覇權) (ko) (paegwon)
• Macedonian: превосходство n (prevoshodstvo), надмоќ f (nadmoḱ)
• Plautdietsch: Äwahaunt f
• Polish: supremacja (pl) f, przewaga (pl) f
• Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
• Romanian: supremație (ro) f
• Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
• Spanish: supremacía (es) f
• Swedish: överhöghet (sv), överlägsenhet (sv)
• Turkish: üstünlük (tr)
• Ukrainian: перева́га f (pereváha), зве́рхність f (zvérxnistʹ), ви́щість f (výščistʹ), панува́ння n (panuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: bá quyền (vi) (霸權)

authority over all others

• Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun)
• Azerbaijani: alilik
• Belarusian: панава́нне n (panavánnje)
• Bulgarian: госпо́дство (bg) n (gospódstvo)
• Czech: nadvláda (cs) f
• Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivalta (fi)
• Galician: supremacía f
• Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
• Irish: ardcheannas m, ceannas m
• Macedonian: превосходство n (prevoshodstvo), надмоќ f (nadmoḱ)
• Polish: supremacja (pl) f, zwierzchnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
• Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), верхове́нство (ru) n (verxovénstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
• Sanskrit: क्षत्र (sa) n (kṣatra)
• Slovak: nadvláda f
• Slovene: nadvlada f
• Spanish: supremacía (es) f
• Swedish: herravälde (sv) n, övermakt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: зве́рхність f (zvérxnistʹ), панува́ння n (panuvánnja)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉefeco

References

• “supremacy”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “supremacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.