| a. | 1. | Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
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| n. | 1. | (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
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| Noun | 1. | dominant - (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale |
| Adj. | 1. | dominant - exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" Antonyms: subordinate, low-level - lower in rank or importance |
| 2. | dominant - of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar Antonyms: recessive - of genes; producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical |
DOMINANT. estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate; for example, where the owners of the estate, Blackacre, have a right of way or passage over the estate Whiteacre, the former is called the dominant, and the latter the servient estate. Bouv. Inst. n. 1600.
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