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- 10 dictionary resultsma⋅jor
[mey-jer]
–noun
| 1. | a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain. |
| 2. | one of superior rank, ability, etc., in a specified class. |
| 3. | Education.
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| 4. | a person of full legal age (opposed to minor ). |
| 5. | Music. a major interval, chord, scale, etc. |
| 6. | the majors,
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–adjective
| 7. | greater in size, extent, or importance: the major part of the town. |
| 8. | great, as in rank or importance: a major political issue; a major artist. |
| 9. | serious or risky: a major operation. |
| 10. | of or pertaining to the majority: the major opinion. |
| 11. | of full legal age. |
| 12. | Music.
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| 13. | pertaining to the subject in which a student takes the most courses: Her major field is English history. |
| 14. | (initial capital letter ) (of one of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the elder or higher in standing: Hobbes Major is not of a scientific bent. |
–verb (used without object)
| 15. | to follow a major course of study: He is majoring in physics. |
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Major
Ma"jor\, [L. major, compar. of magnus great: cf. F. majeur. Cf. Master, Mayor, Magnitude, More, a.]1. Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory. 2. Of greater dignity; more important. --Shak. 3. Of full legal age. [Obs.] 4. (Mus.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. Major axis (Geom.), the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. Major key (Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major seconds, and three and four, and seven and eight, make minor seconds. Major offense (Law), an offense of a greater degree which contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery include assault. Major premise (Logic), that premise of a syllogism which contains the major term. Major scale (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and Diatonic. Major second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a difference in pitch of a step. Major sixth (Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a half step. In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more cheerful. Major term (Logic), that term of a syllogism which forms the predicate of the conclusion. Major third (Mus.), a third of two steps.Major
Ma"jor\, n. [F. major. See Major, a.]1. (Mil.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer. 2. (Law) A person of full age. 3. (Logic) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]. Note: In hypothetical syllogisms, the hypothetical premise is called the major. 4. [LL. See Major.] A mayor. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Language Translation for : Major
Spanish:
mayor, principal,
German:
bedeutend,
Japanese:
重要な
major (adj.)
c.1400, from L. major (earlier *magjos), irregular comp. of magnus "large, great" (see magnate). Used in music (of modes, scales, or chords) since 1694, on notion of an interval a half-tone greater than the minor. The verb meaning "focus (one's) studies" is 1924, from noun in sense of "subject of specialization" (1890). The adv. form majorly emerged c.1990.
major (n.)
military rank, 1643, from Fr., short for sergent-major, originally a higher rank than at present, from M.L. major "chief officer, magnate, superior person," from L. major "an elder, adult," noun use of the adjective (see major (adj.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: ma·jor
Pronunciation: 'mA-j&r
Function: adjective
: involving grave risk :
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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