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supremacy
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)
- The quality of being supreme.
- Power over all others.
- (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.
- 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press (?ISBN), page 139:
- (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
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character
English
Etymology
From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??kt?/
- Hyphenation: char?ac?ter
Noun
character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- A man of […] thoroughly subservient character
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
- (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
- (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
- This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
- (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
- (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.
Usage notes
Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Pages starting with “character”.
Translations
Verb
character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)
- (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.
See also
- codepoint
- font
- glyph
- letter
- symbol
- rune
- pictogram
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]
Noun
character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension
- branding iron
- brand (made by a branding iron)
- characteristic, mark, character, style
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Hungarian: karakter
- Galician: caritel; ? carácter
- Irish: carachtar
- Italian: carattere
- Old French: caractere
- ? English: character
- French: caractère
- Polish: charakter
- ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
- Portuguese: caractere, carácter
- Sicilian: caràttiri
- Spanish: carácter
References
- character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Noun
character m (plural characteres)
- Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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