SUPREMACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supremacy mean? 

• SUPREMACY (noun)
  The noun SUPREMACY has 1 sense:

1. power to dominate or defeat

  Familiarity information: SUPREMACY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPREMACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Power to dominate or defeat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

domination; mastery; supremacy

Context example:

mastery of the seas

Hypernyms ("supremacy" is a kind of...):

ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supremacy"):

superiority; transcendence; transcendency (the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits)

Derivation:

supremacist (a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others)

 Context examples 

But it was then that the unexpected happened, the thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, past many a weary mile of trail and toil.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the supremacy of the other confederacy, whether they joined in the war or not.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came the supremacy of Brummell, and the open breach upon the subject of velvet collars, in which the town followed the lead of the younger man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers from Google claimed to have reached ‘quantum supremacy’, the point at which a quantum computer can perform calculations beyond the capacity of the most powerful supercomputers.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

A dark-blue oar crossed with a cherry-pink one above his mantel-piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man, while the foils and boxing-gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Spitz, as lead-dog and acknowledged master of the team, felt his supremacy threatened by this strange Southland dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Skeet and Nig were too good-natured for quarrelling,—besides, they belonged to John Thornton; but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly acknowledged Buck’s supremacy or found himself struggling for life with a terrible antagonist.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)