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1. (adj.) prevailing
most frequent; predominant:
prevailing winds.
2. prevailing
generally current:
the prevailing opinion.
3. prevailing
having superior power or influence.
Etymology: (1580–90)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife
most frequent or common
"prevailing winds"
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1. (adj) prevailing
having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive
2. (adj) prevailing
predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion
3. prevailing
of Prevail
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Sense: most frequent
The prevailing winds are from the west.
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 Afrikaans: heersend |
 Arabic: سائِد |
 Bulgarian: преобладаващ |
 Brazilian: predominante |
 Czech: převládající |
 German: vorherrschend |
 Danish: mest hyppige |
 Greek: επικρατέστερος, συχνότερο |
 Spanish: predominante |
 Estonian: ülekaalus (olev) |
 Farsi: متداول |
 Finnish: vallitseva |
 French: dominant |
 Hebrew: רוּחַ שַׁלֶטֶת |
 Hindi: अकसर आने वाला |
 Croatian: nejčešći |
 Hungarian: uralkodó |
 Indonesian: paling sering |
 Icelandic: ríkjandi |
 Italian: dominante |
 Japanese: 主な |
 Korean: 지배적인 |
 Lithuanian: vyraujantis |
 Latvian: dominējošs; valdošs |
 Malay: lazim |
 Dutch: heersend |
 Norwegian: rådende |
 Polish: przeważający |
 Persian: مروج |
 Pashto: مروج |
 Portuguese: predominante |
 Romanian: dominant |
 Russian: преобладающий |
 Slovak: prevládajúci |
 Slovenian: prevladujoč |
 Serbian: preovlađujući |
 Swedish: rådande, förhärskande |
 Thai: ซึ่งมีบ่อย |
 Turkish: düzenli, her zaman olan |
 Taiwanese: 佔優勢的，主要的 |
 Ukrainian: пануючий |
 Urdu: بار بار آنے والا |
 Vietnamese: thường xuyên nhất |
 Chinese: 占优势的，主要的 |
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