overwicht — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ascendancy noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- hegemony noun Dominance by one country, group or class over others, especially political and economic leadership that others cannot easily challenge.
- prevalence noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.
Senses
overwicht is used for these senses in English:
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- hegemony (formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
- prevalence (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
ascendancy — full definition
- noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- noun Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
- noun A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
hegemony — full definition
- noun Dominance by one country, group or class over others, especially political and economic leadership that others cannot easily challenge.
- noun The way a dominant group's ideas and values come to be accepted as ordinary common sense, so that its power is maintained by consent rather than force.