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Meaning of Supremacy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
suˈpɹɛməsi

Definitions

  1. The quality of being supreme.
    uncountable, usually
  2. Power over all others.
    uncountable, usually
  3. The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
    in-compounds, uncountable, usually
  4. A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
    in-compounds, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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