Vocabulary Builder — Essay & Answer Writing
Hegemony
noun
/ heh-JEM-uh-nee /
Medium
Meaning
Leadership or dominance, especially of one country or social group over others
Origin / Etymology
Greek hegemonia, from hegemon (leader), from hegeisthai (to lead)
Synonyms
Dominance
Supremacy
Preponderance
Ascendancy
Primacy
Antonyms
Subordination
Submission
Equality
Example Sentence
"India's growing economic and military strength challenges the traditional hegemony of Western powers in global institutions."
🎯 UPSC Usage
Indispensable in International Relations answers. Use to describe US unipolar hegemony, China's regional hegemony in Asia, or debates about multipolarity. Also appears in GS1 history contexts, British hegemony in colonial India.
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