major
IPA: mˈeɪdʒɝ
noun
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A person of legal age.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (military) Title for an army officer with the rank of major.
- (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 interval. [(music) an interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh]
- 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.]
- (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).]
- (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.
verb
- (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: major in.
adjective
- (attributive):
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (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.
- (music):
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- 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.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- (UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers, appended to a surname in public schools.
- (logic)
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
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Examples of "major" in Sentences
- The major nights are the main felicity.
- A _major triad_ has a major third and a perfect fifth, _i. e.
- Farming is the main source of income of the majority of the people.
- For the majority of the game, Arthur Dent is the main player character.
- The ability of the Drum Major is the main condition for the appointment.
- The props displayed in the main house are far from the majority of props.
- The lower level concourse is the major one, leading to the main grandstand.
- It was a stopgap solution, never intended to be a design of major importance.
- At this point, the major ones will be presented in the main Dyslexia article.
- The major histocompatibility complex plays an important role in the immune system.
- But Rumsfeld qualifies the 4/18 with the term major violence, so I took the same liberty.
- Clubs in Bulgaria's capital Sofia and major cities will offer lessons that will whirlenthusiasts under the sound of tango.
- The major medieval philosophers before the year 1000 are probably fewer than five in number (depending on how generously one wants to take the word ˜major™).
- Thus _e. g._, the large I shows that the triad on the first tone (in major) is a _major triad_, the small II shows that the triad on the second tone is minor, etc.
- I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time a Christian has used logic; logic was an important tool for theologians back when the RCC was a major and I mean *major* political power.
- Most people not hermetically sealed within the D.S.M. 5 inner sanctum immediately recognize how ridiculous it is to apply the label 'major depression' to someone after just two weeks of perfectly normal symptoms of bereavement.