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major

English

🔊 greater in number or size or amount
“a major portion (a majority) of the population”
🔊 greater in scope or effect
“a major contribution”
🔊 of full legal age
🔊 (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
“major scales”
🔊 of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
“his major field was mathematics”
🔊 of greater importance or stature or rank
“a major artist”
🔊 of greater seriousness or danger
“a major earthquake”
🔊 the principal field of study of a student at a university
“her major is linguistics”
🔊 a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines
🔊 a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
“she is a linguistics major”
🔊 British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
🔊 have as one's principal field of study
“She is majoring in linguistics”