majority
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
majority
- More than half (50%) of some group.
- The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
- Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
- The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
- The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
- (dated) Legal adulthood.
- By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
- (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
- On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
- Ancestors; ancestry.
, Vulgar Errors - Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.
- (more than half) minority
- French: majorité
- German: Mehrheit, Majorität
- Italian: maggioranza
- Portuguese: maioria
- Russian: большинство́
- Spanish: mayoría
- Portuguese: maioria
- Russian: перевес
- French: majorité
- German: Erwachsenenalter
- Italian: maggiore età
- Portuguese: maioridade
- Spanish: mayoría de edad
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