DOMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domination mean? 

• DOMINATION (noun)
  The noun DOMINATION has 2 senses:

1. social control by dominating

2. power to dominate or defeat

  Familiarity information: DOMINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social control by dominating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

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

bossism (domination of a political organization by a party boss)

mastery; subordination (the act of mastering or subordinating someone)

monopolisation; monopolization (domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others)

Derivation:

dominate (be in control)

Sense 2

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 ("domination" 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 "domination"):

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

Derivation:

dominate (have dominance or the power to defeat over)

dominate (be in control)

 Context examples 

As he stood with his pale, calm face and fine figure, I had never seen him to greater advantage, for he seemed, with all his elegance, to have a quiet air of domination amongst these fierce fellows, like a huntsman walking carelessly through a springing and yapping pack.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having identified the timing sequences related to each type of fungus, the researchers developed and tested a statistical model to predict the areas of fungus domination in any particular Landsat image from canopy changes alone.

(NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi, NASA)