hegemony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hegemony	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hegemony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hegemony n the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hegemony \Hegem`ony\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] guide, leader, fr. [?] to go before.] Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. --Lieber.