domination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒməˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌdɑːməˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dominations
Etymology: From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.
Senses: examples: text: First, relations of power and domination have been and continue to be significantly constitutive of social relations in modern societies.
ref: 2001, Angus Stewart, Theories of Power and Domination, →ISBN:
text: What this means is that the subordination of women by men is pervasive, that it orders the relationship of the sexes in every area of life, that a sexual politics of domination is as much in evidence in the private spheres of the family, ordinary social life, and sexuality as in the traditionally public spheres of government and the economy.
ref: 2012, Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination, →ISBN:
text: England took 33 minutes to make their domination count, the goal coming from the most familiar source as captain Harry Kane headed home Declan Rice's corner for his 74th goal in 109 internationals.
ref: 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “Serbia 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force.
examples: text: [...] thou and thine vſurpe / The Dominations, Royalties, and rights / Of this oppreſſed boy; [...]
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 4, column 2:
text: I am no friend to ariſtocracy [...]. [... O]n the ſuppoſed ruin of the conſtitution, [...] if it muſt periſh, I would rather by far ſee it reſolved into any other form, than loſt in that auſtere and inſolent domination.
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 3rd edition, London: J. Dodsley, page 28:
text: In such a [slaveholding] people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom [...].
ref: 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America:
glosses: The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government.
examples: text: Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: The succession of orders given in this passage is not exactly the same as in the succeeding chapters, in which it is as follows: -- Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones; Dominations, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, Angels.
ref: 1872, The Sacristy: A Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature, page 20:
text: According to Dionysius, the dominations have the duty in the heavenly host of regulating the tasks of the angels and "through them the majesty of God is manifested." Through the efforts of the dominations - who are naturally seen only rarely by mortals -- the very order of the cosmos is maintained.
ref: 2010, Matthew Bunson, Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
examples: text: By night, I am Mistress Shay Noir, the Black queen of domination. The world's most beautiful sadist.
ref: 2017, Teejay LeCapois, The Black Dominatrix Universe, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.
examples: text: With more than 200 research papers published on the algorithmic complexity of domination and related parameters of graphs, it is difficult to know what to cover in a relatively short chapter on the subject, especially since it could take quite a few pages just to cover the preliminaries of computational complexity and the many algorithm design paradigms that have been applied to domination problems.
ref: 1998, Teresa W. Haynes, Stephen T. Hedetniemi, Peter J. Slater, Fundamentals of Domination in Graphs, →ISBN, page 299:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Synonym of cover.
synonyms: word: cover
Derived terms: domination line
domination number
financial domination
findom
immunodomination
minority domination
nondomination
Related terms: dominate
dominion
dominator
domineering