HEGEMONY

hegemony (hi-jem-[schwa]-nee), n. 1. Influence, authority, or supremacy over others (the hegemony of capitalism). 2. The striving for leadership or predominant authority of one state of a confederacy or union over the others; political domination (the former Soviet Union’s hegemony over Eastern Europe). — hegemonic (hej-[schwa]-mon-ik), adj.