dominance

C1 Topic:The Human Body
US /ˈdɑmɪnəns/ UK /ˈdɒmɪnəns/
noun Freq #20947

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The state of having more power, influence, or success than others.

    The team's dominance in the league lasted for a decade.

  2. 2
    noun

    In genetics, the way one form of a gene shows in the body while the other does not.

    Brown eye colour shows dominance over blue.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · the state of having more... controlauthorization
Word family
Derived forms antidominancecodominancedominancyequidominanceeurodominancehyperdominanceimmunodominancemonodominancenondominanceoverdominancepostdominancepseudodominance

Etymology

From dominant + -ance.

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