supremacy

Meaning

Noun

  • The quality of being supreme.
  • Power over all others.
  • The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
  • A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

Origin

  • From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Modern English dictionary

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