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Major   /mˈeɪdʒər/   Listen
Major

adjective
1.
Of greater importance or stature or rank.  "A major role" , "Major highways"
2.
Greater in scope or effect.  "A major improvement" , "A major break with tradition" , "A major misunderstanding"
3.
Greater in number or size or amount.  "Ursa Major" , "A major portion of the winnings"
4.
Of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes.
5.
Of a scale or mode.  "The key of D major"
6.
Of greater seriousness or danger.  "A major hurricane" , "A major illness"
7.
Of full legal age.
8.
Of the elder of two boys with the same family name.
noun
1.
A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain.
2.
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943).  Synonyms: John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major.
3.
A university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject.
4.
The principal field of study of a student at a university.
verb
1.
Have as one's principal field of study.



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"Major" Quotes from Famous Books



... share which I may have had in the late vote, as an evidence of the share I hold in the esteem of my countrymen. But in this point of view, a few votes more or less will be little sensible, and in every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote. I have no ambition to govern men; no passion which would lead me to delight to ride in a storm. Flumina amo sylvasque, inglorius. My attachment to my home has enabled me to make the calculation ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... covered many a square mile of Berkshire, and fifty sturdy yeomen dismounted before Furness Hall at the hour named by Sir Henry. A number of grooms and serving men were in attendance, and took the horses as they rode up, while the major-domo conducted them to the great picture gallery. Here they were received by Sir Henry with a stately cordiality, and the maids handed round a great silver ...
— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty

... faithful in moistening the parched lips, and in administering the remedies, with an edifying punctuality, and in fact, all the major and minor duties of a nurse were admirably attended to, by the whole-souled creature, who had taken ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

... to those pests of the Mediterranean; and from Malta as a new base of operations they could have spread devastation along the coasts of Sicily and Italy. This was the objection which Cornwallis at once offered to an other-wise specious proposal: he had recently received papers from Major-General Pigot at Malta, in which the same solution of the question was examined in detail. The British officer pointed out that the complete dismantling of the fortifications would expose the island, and therefore the coasts of Italy, to the rovers; yet he suggested a partial demolition, ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... to be virtuous. They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. Thus virtue (abolish vice) is an idea. Again, the community of sin doth not dis- parage goodness; for, when vice gains upon the major part, virtue, in whom it remains, becomes more excel- lent, and, being lost in some, multiplies its goodness in others, which remain untouched, and persist entire in the general inundation. I can therefore behold vice without a satire, content only with an admonition, or instructive reprehension; ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne


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