Pronunciation Noun
major (plural majors)
- (military ranks) A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- He used to be a major in the army.
- French: commandant, major
- German: Major
- Italian: maggiore
- Portuguese: major
- Russian: майо́р
- Spanish: comandante, mayor
major
- Of great significance or importance.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent
- the major part of the assembly
- Of full legal age, having attained majority
- (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
- A major scale.
- (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
- (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- French: majeur, de taille, très important
- German: bedeutend, wichtig
- Portuguese: maior, principal, mor
- French: majeur
- German: volljährig
- Portuguese: maior, maior de idade
- Portuguese: maior
major (plural majors)
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
- She is a math major.
- A person of legal age.
- (logic) The major premise.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- 1997, Billboard (volume 109, number 30, page 86)
- At the end of last year, the band re-signed to XL for another three albums, despite being chased by majors that included Island, says manager Mike Champion of Midi Management.
- 1997, Billboard (volume 109, number 30, page 86)
- (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
- (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- (a person of legal age) minor
- French: matière principal
- German: Hauptfach
- Russian: профилирующий
- Spanish: asignatura principal
- French: étudiant spécialisé, étudiante spécialisée
- French: majeur
- German: Volljährige
- Italian: maggiorenne
- Portuguese: maior, maior de idade
- Russian: совершенноле́тний
- Spanish: mayor de edad
major (majors, present participle majoring; past and past participle majored)
- (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
- I have decided to major in mathematics.
- French: se spécialiser
- German: spezialisieren
- Portuguese: especializar-se
- Russian: специализи́роваться
Major
Proper noun
- Surname
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
major (plural majors)
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