Major | |
1. n. (military) (Title for an army officer with the rank of major.) | |
2. n. topics, en, Villages, Kentucky, USA, Saskatchewan | |
3. n. , or, when used as a title before a person's name, Major | |
4. n. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel | |
He used to be a major in the army. | |
5. adj. Of great significance or importance. | |
6. adj. Greater in number, quantity, or extent | |
the major part of the assembly | |
7. adj. Of full legal age, having attained majority | |
8. adj. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone | |
A major scale. | |
9. adj. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number. | |
10. adj. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic. | |
11. n. (US, Canada Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | |
Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major. | |
12. n. (US, Canada Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. | |
She is a math major. | |
13. n. A person of legal age. | |
14. n. (logic) The major premise. | |
15. n. (Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score". | |
16. n. A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie. | |
17. n. (British slang) An elder brother (especially at a public school). | |
18. n. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest. | |
19. v. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university | |
I have decided to major in mathematics. | |