• (British) IPA: /ˌdɒməˈneɪʃən/
• (America) IPA: /ˌdɑːməˈneɪʃən/

domination

1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority, often when arbitrary or insolent.

   • In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom.

2. A ruling party; a party in power.
3. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

4. A fetish characterized by control/power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.
5. (topology) Synonym of cover#English|cover

• dominate
• dominion
• dominator
• domineering

• French: domination
• Italian: dominazione
• Portuguese: dominação, domínio