Other forms: dominated, dominating, dominates
To dominate is to be the strongest force in a place or a contest. Dominate the match, dominate the market, dominated the conversation.
It describes control by weight rather than by rule. Of a landscape feature it means to stand over: the cathedral dominates the town. Of a person in conversation it is a criticism. Note dominant, which in genetics is a precise term for an allele that shows even when only one copy is present; domination; and dominant hand, which is the one you write with.
1verbdominateTo be the strongest force in a place or contest.
“The home team dominated the game from start to finish.”
2verbstandTo stand over a landscape.
“The castle dominates the town from its hill.”
dominate is a controlling by strength.
Latin dominari comes from dominus, a lord or master, from domus, a house. A dominus was the master of a household, and dominate, dominion and danger all descend from him.
Proto-Indo-European
*dem-
Latin
dominātus
English, today
dominate
Built from
Latin dominātus, perfect active participle of dominor (“to rule, have dominion”) (see -ate), from dominus (“lord, master”) + -ō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA