Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: supremacy
IPA transcription: [səpɹ'ɛməsi]
Pronunciations of supremacy
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: domination, mastery, supremacy
    Meaning: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
Usage examples
  • They rose up against the first magistrate merely in order to assert the supremacy of the law.
  • For mails and passengers, on the other hand, steam must more and more decidedly assert its supremacy.
  • I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty.
  • The success of England, in her struggle with France for the supremacy of North America had cost her a great deal of money.
  • But on the reverse, was not his right to the supremacy of Scotland acknowledged by the princes who contended for the crown?
  • The advantage of the wave-power, however, would be seen mainly during the calm and desultory weather which has virtually been the means of forcing sail-power to resign its supremacy to steam.
  • By assertion, he attempted to annihilate seven States; and the war which followed was to enforce the revolutionary edict, and to establish the supremacy of the General Government on the ruins of the blood-bought independence of the States.
  • It was a happy and united household: brothers and sisters and cousins living peacefully under the gentle rule of the good stepmother, but all acknowledging from a very early period the supremacy in goodness and cleverness of their big brother Abraham.
  • 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.
  • Some of the great cities of today are famous for their size, such as New York and London; some for their beauty, like Paris and Rio Janeiro; some for their culture and learning, as Boston and Oxford; some for their manufacturing and commercial supremacy, as Detroit and Liverpool.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording God, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wilmington insurrection of 1898, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Samantha Smith, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Elizabeth I of England, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Octavia E. Butler, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George V, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Minneapolis, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Saint Peter, License CC BY-SA 4.0