Usually means: Dominance of one group over others.
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  1. hegemony: Merriam-Webster
  2. hegemony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hegemony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hegemony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hegemony: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hegemony, hegemony: Wordnik
  7. hegemony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hegemony: Wiktionary
  9. hegemony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hegemony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hegemony: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hegemony, hegemony: Dictionary.com
  13. hegemony: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hegemony (album), Hegemony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hegemony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hegemony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hegemony: Rhymezone
  18. Hegemony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hegemony: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hegemony: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. hegemony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hegemony: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Hegemony: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. hegemony: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

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  1. hegemony: Legal dictionary

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  1. hegemony: Encyclopedia

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  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. hegemony: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. hegemony: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
noun:  Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force.

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