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  1. Greek hegemonia, `authority'. political
  2. dominance of one power over others in a group
  3. in which all are supposedly equal. The term
  4. was first used for the dominance of Athens
  5. over the other Greek city states, later
  6. applied to Prussia within Germany, and, in
  7. recent times, to the USA and USSR throughout
  8. the world.
  9.