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dominion
1、 An area over which one rules; domain.
2、 Supreme authority.
🌱The Roman empire had dominion over the entire Mediterranean, which the Romans called mare nostrum,"our sea." 🌳The ruler of a region has dominion over it, and the area itself may be called the ruler's dominion. In the days of the British Empire, England had dominion over many countries throughout the world. Though Canada has been quite independent of Great Britain since the 19th century, it was generally referred to as the Dominion of Canada in official documents until at least the 1950s. The word has an old-fashioned sound today, and probably shows up in history books, historical novels, and fantasy video games more often than in discussions of modern nations. predominant Greater in importance, strength, influence, or authority.
🌱The predominant color of the desert landscape was a rusty brown. 🌳Something predominant stands out above all the rest. The predominant theme in an essay is the one that predominates—the main idea that the writer wants to express. （Notice the difference between the adjective and the verb; be sure not to spell the adjective with an -ate ending.） The word is widely used in many fields. For example, the predominant language of Switzerland is German; the predominant cause of obesity in children is a bad diet; and your predominant reason for wanting a larger vocabulary may be to simply be a better-educated person—though the positive effects of a large vocabulary on one's romantic life are well known. domineering Tending to control the behavior of others in a bossy manner.
🌱His mother was a domineering type, and not even his stepfather dared do anything without her permission. 🌳To be domineering is to behave like a lord. （The word lordly doesn't express quite the same thing.） Someone who tells you what you can wear or what friends you can spend time with could be called domineering; so could someone who always decides what you're going to do with your free time. Those of us who grow up with a domineering parent usually flee as soon as we're old enough. domination 1、 Supremacy or power over another.
2、 The exercise of governing or controlling influence.
🌱The region was under the domination of a single nation, even though it hadn't yet invaded its neighbors. 🌳Domination may sound like something that's achieved by military force. The total domination of Europe, for example, has never been achieved: The Roman empire could never fully dominate the northern Germanic tribes; Napoleon couldn't conquer Spain; and although Adolf Hitler was briefly dominant over most of the continent, he never managed to overpower England. But the word's earliest appearances don't necessarily involve physical force; Chaucer, for instance, speaks of a mind's domination by strong drink. So we may observe that a great tennis player has continued his domination of the world's courts this season, or that the domination of popular music by rock and roll was obvious by the end of the 1950s.
2、 Supreme authority.
🌱The Roman empire had dominion over the entire Mediterranean, which the Romans called mare nostrum,"our sea." 🌳The ruler of a region has dominion over it, and the area itself may be called the ruler's dominion. In the days of the British Empire, England had dominion over many countries throughout the world. Though Canada has been quite independent of Great Britain since the 19th century, it was generally referred to as the Dominion of Canada in official documents until at least the 1950s. The word has an old-fashioned sound today, and probably shows up in history books, historical novels, and fantasy video games more often than in discussions of modern nations. predominant Greater in importance, strength, influence, or authority.
🌱The predominant color of the desert landscape was a rusty brown. 🌳Something predominant stands out above all the rest. The predominant theme in an essay is the one that predominates—the main idea that the writer wants to express. （Notice the difference between the adjective and the verb; be sure not to spell the adjective with an -ate ending.） The word is widely used in many fields. For example, the predominant language of Switzerland is German; the predominant cause of obesity in children is a bad diet; and your predominant reason for wanting a larger vocabulary may be to simply be a better-educated person—though the positive effects of a large vocabulary on one's romantic life are well known. domineering Tending to control the behavior of others in a bossy manner.
🌱His mother was a domineering type, and not even his stepfather dared do anything without her permission. 🌳To be domineering is to behave like a lord. （The word lordly doesn't express quite the same thing.） Someone who tells you what you can wear or what friends you can spend time with could be called domineering; so could someone who always decides what you're going to do with your free time. Those of us who grow up with a domineering parent usually flee as soon as we're old enough. domination 1、 Supremacy or power over another.
2、 The exercise of governing or controlling influence.
🌱The region was under the domination of a single nation, even though it hadn't yet invaded its neighbors. 🌳Domination may sound like something that's achieved by military force. The total domination of Europe, for example, has never been achieved: The Roman empire could never fully dominate the northern Germanic tribes; Napoleon couldn't conquer Spain; and although Adolf Hitler was briefly dominant over most of the continent, he never managed to overpower England. But the word's earliest appearances don't necessarily involve physical force; Chaucer, for instance, speaks of a mind's domination by strong drink. So we may observe that a great tennis player has continued his domination of the world's courts this season, or that the domination of popular music by rock and roll was obvious by the end of the 1950s.
DOM comes from the Latin domus,"house," and dominus,"master," and the two are indeed related. In the Bible, King Ahasuerus, angered by his queen's disobedience, proclaims that "every man is to be master of his own house," and in the Roman empire no one doubted that this was how it was meant to be. A domain is the area where a person has authority or is dominant—but we no longer think of a house as the domain of a single dominant member of a family.🌸