Predominate
[prɪ'dɒmɪneɪt] or [prɪ'dɑmə'net]
Definition
(verb.) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; 'Money reigns supreme here'; 'Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood'.
Checked by Hugo--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.
(v. t.) To rule over; to overpower.
Checked by Kathy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Prevail, dominate, rule, preponderate, be supreme, be sovereign, be in the ascendant.
Typed by Ethan
Definition
v.t. to dominate or rule over.—v.i. to be dominant over: to surpass in strength or authority: to prevail.—ns. Predom′inance Predom′inancy condition of being predominant: superior influence: superiority: ascendency.—adj. Predom′inant ruling: having superior power: ascendant.—adv. Predom′inantly.—n. Predominā′tion ascendency.—Predominant partner the partner who has a larger stake in any business than the others—applied by Lord Rosebery (1894) to England as a member of the United Kingdom.
Checker: Seymour
Examples
- In short, though I scarcely ventured to admit it, hope did begin to predominate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Our tempers certainly did exactly suit each other; and the love must ever predominate on one side, or there will be an end of all stimulus. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The latter feeling now predominated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the library, in spite of weightier presences, Lawrence Lefferts predominated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Then the good predominated. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Here there was a god in which one sort of ideas predominated, and there another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- If good predominates in that nature, the action will bring its own reward; if evil--eh bien! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Certainly the beast was predominating--the beast at the bottom of the glass. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia orange. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Margery