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Definition major

Etymology 1

From French major.

Noun

major (plural majors)

1. (military) A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.

Etymology 2

From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great”), from Proto-Indo-European *ma?-yes- (“greater”), comparative of *ma?-, *me?- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”). Doublet of mayor.

Adjective

major (comparative more major, superlative most major)

1. Of great significance or importance.
2. Greater in number, quantity, or extent
3. Of full legal age, having attained majority
4. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
5. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
6. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.

Noun

major (plural majors)

1. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
2. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
3. A person of legal age.
4. (logic) The major premise.
5. (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
6. A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
7. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
8. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

Verb

major (third-person singular simple present majors, present participle majoring, simple past and past participle majored)

1. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university

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