Domination is complete control over others. Total domination, world domination, domination of the market.
In sport it is a compliment about a team that wins without being troubled. In politics and business it is a complaint. World domination has become a joke phrase through films, which has made it hard to use seriously about anything.
1noundominationComplete control over others.
“The empire's domination of the region lasted for three centuries.”
domination is a control.
Latin dominatio comes from dominus, a lord or master, from domus, a house.
Latin
dominātiō — rule, dominion
Old French
dominacion
Middle English
domynacion
English, today
domination
Built from
From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.
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