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Majors

noun

The most important league in any sport (especially baseball). Synonyms: big league, major league.

Major

noun

A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain.

British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943). Synonyms: John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major.

A university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject.

The principal field of study of a student at a university.

verb

Have as one's principal field of study.

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"Majors" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pealing of steeple chimes. The old man uttered a cry of alarm. The stranger sharply demanded the cause. "The bells! did you not hear them?" gasped Padre Vicentio. "Tush! tush!" answered the stranger, "thy fall hath set triple bob-majors ringing ...

— Legends and Tales • Bret Harte

... the shops of this class are organized upon what may be called the military plan. The orders from the general are transmitted through the colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants and noncommissioned officers to the men. In the same way the orders in industrial establishments go from the manager through superintendents, foremen of shops, assistant foremen and gang bosses ...

— Shop Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor

... writing to me. The letter service is bad. Send a few thousand men by military parcel-post, prepaid, with some red seals—majors and colonels from Aldershot will do. They'll give the step to ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... section of the act of 2d of March, 1821, fixing the military peace establishment, provides "that there shall be one Quartermaster-General; that there shall be two quartermasters with the rank, pay, and emoluments of majors of cavalry, and ten assistant quartermasters, who shall, in addition to their pay in the line, receive a sum not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars per month, to be regulated by the Secretary ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson

... The authority of the regular and lawful government is everywhere and in every point extinguished. Disorders and violences arise; they are repressed by other disorders and other violences. Wherever the collectors of the revenue and the farming colonels and majors move, ruin is about them, rebellion before and behind them. The people in crowds fly out of the country; and the frontier is guarded by lines of troops, not to exclude an enemy, but to prevent ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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