Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

    Dominanz, Vorherrschaft

    госпо́дствоgospódstvo, преоблада́ниеpreobladánije, домини́рованиеdominírovanije

  2. (countable, uncountable)Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.

    Herrschaft

    госпо́дствоgospódstvo, домини́рованиеdominírovanije

    the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

  3. (countable, uncountable)A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.

    Dominanz

    домина́нтностьdominántnostʹ, домини́рованиеdominírovanije

    superior development of one side of the body

  5. (countable, uncountable)Of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

    Dominanz

    домина́нтностьdominántnostʹ, домини́рованиеdominírovanije

    the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

Examples

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  1. The cats were playing dominance games.

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  2. The guards tried to assert their dominance.

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  3. Narcissists employ manipulation tactics to assert their dominance.

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  4. Rodrigo immediately asserted his dominance in the cell.

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  5. He established dominance in the early stages of the competition.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
state of being dominant:
superior development or preference for one side of the body or for one of a pair of organs:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
state of being dominant:
being in a position over others:

Origin

From dominant + -ance.

From dominant + -ance.

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