Supremacy Meaning
/suˈpɹɛməsi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality of being supreme.
nounPower over all others.
Sentence Examples
Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth?
Why does Tom always act personally attacked when white supremacy is mentioned?
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the king over his subjects was unquestioned.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The athlete proved her ____ on the track by winning every single race she entered this entire year today.
Word Origin & History
From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the king over his subjects was unquestioned.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The athlete proved her ____ on the track by winning every single race she entered this entire year today.