What is the definition of Predominant?

PREDOMINANT

\pɹɪdˈɒmɪnənt], \pɹɪdˈɒmɪnənt], \p_ɹ_ɪ_d_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_n_t]\

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1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

An Italian lyric poet(1552-1637); born at Savona. Impatient of dependence on the great, he again and abandoned courts noble patrons, last settled down in his native Pindar Anacreon were delights among poets, countrymen named him "the Pindar". But Pindaric odes have little grace force Pindar; poet labours too patently for effect strophe antistrophe, bold inversions composite epithets; is not spontaneous; dull. Yet some songs after are models elegance grace. epic dramatic poems hardly rise above mediocrity. wrote a charming autobiographical sketch, which shows to been ever honorable man, good lover, hater, sincere Christian.