dominant

From Middle French dominant.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒmɪnənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑmənənt/

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dominant (plural dominants)

2. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
4. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
6. (genetics) Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.
   • 1930, R. A. Fisher, J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, page 50:

     Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.

8. A species or organism that is dominant.
   • 1966, John R. Bassett, Thinning loblolly pine from above and below, New Orleans, La: Southern Forest Experiment Station:

     Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.

10. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

    Antonym: submissive

    Hyponyms: dominatrix, dominator

    • 1988 December 25, Wickie Stamps, “Leather, Peace and Wombyn over Forty”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 7:

      This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)

    • 2011, Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master, page 65:

      His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.

• dominator

• → Polish: dominant

dominant (comparative more dominant, superlative most dominant)

1. Ruling; governing; prevailing

   The dominant party controlled the government.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, […] but imperious, insolent, and cruel.

2. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.

   The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.

   • 2009, H. Stephen Stoker, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, page 10:

     All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.

   • 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 38:

     It's the water that makes this area famous. […] That water is still being used to supply Blackford's two dominant industries, Tullibardine whisky distillery to the south of the village and, more significantly, Highland Spring Group's bottling plant to the north.

3. (of a body part) Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
4. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
5. (music) Being the

   Dominant seventh

• (ruling, governing): imposing
• (predominant, common): prevalent

• (antonym(s) of “ruling”): obedient, submissive (one who obeys); defiant, rebellious (one who defys)

dominant m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominants)

1. dominant, ruling
2. (music) dominant
3. (genetics) dominant

dominant

1. gerund of dominar

Borrowed from French dominant, from Middle French dominant.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdoː.miˈnɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: do‧mi‧nant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

dominant (comparative dominanter, superlative dominantst)

1. dominant

   Synonym: overheersend

2. (genetics) dominant

• dominantie

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mi.nɑ̃/

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dominant

1. present participle of dominer

dominant (feminine dominante, masculine plural dominants, feminine plural dominantes)

1. dominant

• vent dominant

• → Turkish: dominant

• “dominant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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• Rhymes: -ant

dominant (strong nominative masculine singular dominanter, comparative dominanter, superlative am dominantesten)

1. dominant

• “dominant” in Duden online
• “dominant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /dɔˈmi.nant/
• Rhymes: -inant
• Syllabification: do‧mi‧nant

Borrowed from English dominant.^[1]

dominant m animal

1. (biology) dominant (species or organism that is dominant)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dominant f

1. genitive plural of dominanta

• dominant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dominant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• dominant in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French dominant.

dominant m or n (feminine singular dominantă, masculine plural dominanți, feminine and neuter plural dominante)

1. dominant

dominant (comparative dominantare, superlative dominantast)

1. dominant
2. (biology, genetics) dominant

   Antonym: recessiv

3. (of a hand, etc.) dominant
4. (BDSM) dominant

   Antonym: undergiven

dominant c

1. (rare) a dominating person
2. (music) a dominant

• dominans
• dominera

• dominant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dominant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dominant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From French dominante.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mi.nɑnt/

dominant

1. dominant

   Synonym: baskın