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predominance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /pɹəˈdɒmɪnəns/

Etymology

From predominant + -ance. By surface analysis, pre- + dominance.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
    • Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

Forms

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Deriveds

seropredominance

Translations (12)

ca predominança (the condition or state of being dominant) · cs převaha (the condition or state of being dominant) · bg доминация (the condition or state of being dominant) · pl przewaga (the condition or state of being dominant) · es predominio (the condition or state of being dominant) · es predominancia (the condition or state of being dominant) · bg превъзходство (the condition or state of being dominant) · ca predomini (the condition or state of being dominant) · pt predomínio (the condition or state of being dominant) · it predominio (the condition or state of being dominant) · pt predominância (the condition or state of being dominant) · pdt Äwahaunt (the condition or state of being dominant)