different between jurisdiction vs supremacy

English

Etymology

From Latin i?risdicti?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?????s?d?k??n/, /d????s?d?k??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??????s?d?k??n/, /d??????s?d?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: ju?ris?dic?tion

Noun

jurisdiction (countable and uncountable, plural jurisdictions)

1. The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
2. The power or right to exercise authority.
3. The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
4. The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
5. The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.

Synonyms

• (power or right to exercise authority): power
• (historical, UK): oyer and terminer, soc and sac

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• control

English

Etymology

From supreme +? -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?p??m?si/
• Hyphenation: su?prem?a?cy

Noun

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

1. The quality of being supreme.
2. Power over all others.
3. (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
   • 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press (?ISBN), page 139:

     Fighting a war against Hitler's Nazi ideology, with its doctrine of Aryan supremacy and its "final solution" to protect against an "inferior people," accentuated the final irony of an America fighting a racist ideology while trying to keep its own racist ideology intact.

4. (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: suprématie
  • ? Polish: supremacja
  • ? Portuguese: supremacia
  • ? Romanian: suprema?ie
  • ? Spanish: supremacía
  • ? Galician: supremacía

Derived terms

• supremacist
• supremacism

Translations

References

• “supremacy”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
• supremacy at OneLook Dictionary Search