Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

supremacy

/suˈpɹɛməsi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: su-prem-a-cy
IPA: /suˈpɹɛməsi/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being supreme.

Uncountable

noun

Power over all others.

Uncountable

noun

The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.

Uncountable

noun

A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"white supremacy"
"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."

Etymology

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

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

supremacies (plural)

Derived Forms

cissupremacy heterosupremacy supremacism supremacist

Phrases

air supremacy black supremacy papal supremacy quantum supremacy straight supremacy white supremacy woke supremacy

Synonyms

domination mastery

Questions

How do you pronounce supremacy?: The recorded pronunciation is /suˈpɹɛməsi/.
What does supremacy mean?: The quality of being supreme.
Where does supremacy come from?: From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

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