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ma·jor (mā′jər)
adjective
- greater in size, amount, number, or extent
- greater in importance or rank
- of full legal age
- constituting the majority: said of a part, etc.
- ☆ Educ. designating or of a field of study in which a student specializes and receives a degree
- Music
- designating an imperfect interval greater than the corresponding minor by a semitone
- characterized by major intervals, scales, etc. in a major key
- designating a triad having a major third
- based on the scale pattern of the major mode
Etymology: ME maiour < L major, compar. of magnus, great: see magni-
intransitive verb
noun
Etymology: < majorthe
a superior in some class or groupEtymology: Fr
U.S. Mil. an officer ranking above a captain and below a lieutenant colonel- ☆ Educ.
- a major subject or field of study
- a student specializing in a specified subject a music major
- Law a person who has reached full legal age
- Music a major interval, key, etc.
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Ma·jor (mā′jər)
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Converse of object
- win: Now all he needs to do is win two majors in a season, as Inkster has done.
Preposition: at
- end: Followed upstream of more deposits but less major at top end of wood.
Modifies a noun
- problem: Diabetes is becoming a major health problem in many parts of the world.
Modifying Another Word
- fairly: While on the surface this appears a relatively trivial issue it has fairly major implications for the practical implementation of the qualifications.
Preposition: in
- season: Now all he needs to do is win two majors in a season, as Inkster has done.
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In the spacious highways of books major or minor, each poet is allowed the stride that will get him where he wants to go if,God help him, he can hit that stride and keep it.
All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
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