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      major
      noun
      (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
      A person of legal age.
      (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
      A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
      (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
      (Australian rules football) A goal.
      (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
      (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
      An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
      A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
      (military) Title for an army officer with the rank of major.
      An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.
      A village in the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale, No. 321, Saskatchewan, Canada.
      A surname.
      (music) : [(music) A musical key based upon a major scale.]
      Ellipsis of major key. [(music) A musical key based upon a major scale.]
      Ellipsis of major scale. [(music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.]
      Ellipsis of major interval. [(music) an interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh]
      (logic) : [(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.]
      Ellipsis of major term. [(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.]
      Ellipsis of major premise. [(logic) In a categorical syllogism, the premise whose terms are the syllogism's major term and middle term.]
      (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit. [(bridge) Either of the suits of spades (♠) and hearts (♥), which rank higher than the minor suits (diamonds and clubs).]
      (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
      (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.
      verb
      (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: major in.
      adjective
      Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
      Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
      (attributive) :
      Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
      (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
      Of full legal age, having attained majority.
      (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
      Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
      (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
      Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
      Having a major third above the root.
      Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
      (music) :
      (logic) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
      (logic) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
      (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
      (UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers (or the eldest of three), appended to a surname in public schools.
      Roots
      magnusmaj- · Latin · great
      Synonyms for major
      biggestadjminoradjsignificantadjmainadjnotableadjlargeadjimportantadjsizableadjmomentousadjconsiderableadjnoteworthyadjforemostadj
      Words related to major
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