supremacy
Syllables: su·prem·a·cy/suˈpɹɛməsi/
supremacy noun: the quality of being supreme.
Noun
supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)
- The quality of being supreme.
- Power over all others.
- The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
- white supremacy
- 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.2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 139
- A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
supremacy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
supremacy in Hindi
- supremacy, sovereignty, paramountcy
- सर्वोच्चता sarvoccatā
supremacy in Tamil
- தனி முதன்மை, மீயுயர் ஆணையுரிமை, மீயுயர்வு, மேலாதிக்கம்
supremacy in Marathi
- सर्वोच्चता, सर्वोपरिता
supremacy in Urdu
- supremacy, absolute power, sovereignty
- استقلال istiqlāl
- supremacy, dominance
- سرسائی sarsā'ī
More languagesFewer languages
- supremacy in Telugu
- వశము vaśamu, ప్రాధాన్యం prādhānyaṁ
- supremacy in Malayalam
- ആധിപത്യം, പരമാധികാരം, മേധാവിത്വം, ഉച്ചത്വം
- supremacy in Kannada
- ಮೇಲ್ಮೆ
- supremacy in Gujarati
- સર્વોચ્ચતા, સર્વોપરિતા
- supremacy in Odia
- ଐଶ୍ୱର୍ଯ୍ୟ aiśwarjya, ସମୃଦ୍ଧି samruddhi
- supremacy in Sanskrit
- क्षत्र kṣatra
- supremacy in Arabic
- تَفَوُّق tafawwuq
- supremacy in Indonesian
- supremasi
- supremacy in Vietnamese
- bá quyền
Examples of supremacy in a sentence
- Expressing deep concern about violence tied to white supremacy and other forms of bigotry, Gov.
- They are not, but it becomes a problem when white pride becomes white privilege or white supremacy.
- No, Sobukwe replied, he was not anti-white but he was anti-white supremacy.
Forms of supremacy
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Origin of supremacy
From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
Words formed from supremacy
Questions about supremacy
- What does supremacy mean?
- Supremacy means the quality of being supreme.
- What is supremacy in Hindi?
- Supremacy in Hindi is सर्वोच्चता (sarvoccatā). See Supremacy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is supremacy?
- Supremacy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce supremacy?
- Supremacy is pronounced /suˈpɹɛməsi/.
- What is the plural of supremacy?
- The plural of supremacy is supremacies.
Words near supremacy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: supremacy (page history and authors); सर्वोच्चता (Hindi) (page history and authors); supremacy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supremacy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); استقلال (Urdu) (page history and authors); ప్రాధాన్యం (Telugu) (page history and authors); supremacy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supremacy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supremacy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଐଶ୍ୱର୍ଯ୍ୟ (Odia) (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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