predominance
/pɹəˈdɒmɪnəns/
predominance noun: the condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
Noun
predominance (countable and uncountable, plural predominances)
- The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
- Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5
predominance meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
predominance in Bengali
- প্রাধান্য, সংখ্যাধিক্য
predominance in Malayalam
- dominance, prevalence, preponderance
- പ്രാബല്യം, ശ്രൈഷ്ഠ്യം, പ്രാധാന്യം, പ്രചാരം, നടപ്പ്, പ്രാമുഖ്യം
- mastery, supremacy, control
- മേലധികാരം, അതീതഭാവം, ഉത്കർഷം, പ്രഭവിഷ്ണുത, അധികാരഭാവം, പരമോന്നതാധികാരം
predominance in Kannada
- ಮೇಲುಗಯ್, ಆಧಿಕ್ಯ, ಹೇರಳವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಪ್ರಾಬಲ್ಯ, ಮೇಲುಗೈ, ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ
Examples of predominance in a sentence
- Domestic consumption averaged at about 50% and industrial consumption at about 30% of the total consumption showing predominance of household usuage.
- A high quantity of physical activity collaborates to aprimorate the lipid and metabolic profile and decrease the predominance of obesity in both children and adolescents.
- They are even less informative in that they usually just mention the existence of rare labial variants and the quantitative predominance of illabial ones.
Forms of predominance
| plural | predominances |
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Origin of predominance
From predominant + -ance. By surface analysis, pre- + dominance.
Words formed from predominance
Questions about predominance
- What does predominance mean?
- Predominance means the condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
- What is predominance in Bengali?
- Predominance in Bengali is প্রাধান্য, সংখ্যাধিক্য. See Predominance meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is predominance?
- Predominance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce predominance?
- Predominance is pronounced /pɹəˈdɒmɪnəns/.
- What is the plural of predominance?
- The plural of predominance is predominances.
Words near predominance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: predominance (page history and authors); predominance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); predominance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); predominance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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