supremacy

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /suˈpɹɛməsi/

Noun

supremacy (uncountable)

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 9780865549586), 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.

Translations

• French: suprématie
• German: Vorherrschaft
• Italian: supremazia
• Portuguese: supremacia
• Russian: превосхо́дство
• Spanish: supremacía

Translations

• Portuguese: supremacia
• Russian: превосхо́дство
• Spanish: supremacía

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