Dom″i‐nant (?), a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent,... but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay.
Dominant estateortenement(Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier.Wharton's Law Dict. — Dominant owner(Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
Syn. — Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.