It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for March 15th.

Today's word is hegemony, also pronounced hegemony and spelled H-E-M-O-N-Y.

hegemony is a noun.

It refers to influence or control over another country or group of people.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the Hollywood reporter.

Beyond Hollywood's scrambled economics, one of the biggest threats to its hegemony is social media,

Tik-Tok, Facebook, Instagram, and X, formerly known as Twitter,

with which it has always had an uncomfortable relationship,

alternately its victim or master.

The word hegemony refers to a kind of domination.

It was borrowed in the mid-16th century from the Greek word Hegemonia, a noun formed from the verb Hegeth-Stai, meaning to lead.

At first, Hegemini was used specifically to refer to the control once wielded by ancient Greek states.

Later, it was applied to domination by other political actors.

By the 19th century, the word had acquired a second sense referring to the social or cultural influence

wielded by a dominant entity over others of its kind, a sense employed by design scholar

Joshua Langman when describing the use of found objects by French artist Marcel Duchin, he of notorious ready-made fountain fame, as a means to question and criticize the values of the artistic

hegemony by issuing craft entirely.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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