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ˈmeɪdʒər ]
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ˈmeɪdʒə(r) ]
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Adjective

1. Important, serious, or significant.

There have been three major deals in the last year.

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2. Greater or more important; main.

The major share of the party's vote came from two provinces.

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3. (of a surgical operation) serious or life-threatening.

he had to undergo major surgery

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4. (of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.

Bastien uses the little tune for the first five tones of the major scale.

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5. (of an interval) equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.

The tension generated throughout the work by the collision of major and minor thirds is left clearly unresolved in these closing bars.

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6. (of a key) based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.

I can still remember the effect of his G major sonata, a decade after the concert.

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7. (appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the elder of two brothers.

Brown major had a trick of bringing up unpleasant topics.

8. (of a term) occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.

The argument is said to commit the fallacy of Illicit Process of the Major Term.

9. (of a premise) containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.

The second major premise of intelligent design is that life, especially Homo sapiens, is too complex to have just happened.

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Noun

1. A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, above captain and below lieutenant colonel.

Most of the soldiers in the queue were grizzled captains and majors.

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2. An officer in charge of a section of band instruments.

a trumpet major

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3. A major key, interval, or scale.

A two-bar episode leads to the soprano middle entry in the relative major.

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4. A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
5. A major organization or competition.

Player is one of five golfers to win all four majors.

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6. A student's principal subject or course.

Renovations will make this practically a new course for the final major of the year.

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7. A student specializing in a specified subject.

In the senior class alone, seventy students are Economics majors.

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8. A major term or premise.
9. short for major suit

The Americans used more familiar methods: five-card majors and a 16-18 1NT with weak Two-bids in three suits.

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10. A goal.

The Cats were the only goal scorers in the second quarter with one major, sending them in at half time 17 points ahead.

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Verb

1. Specialize in (a particular subject) at college or university.

He majored in transportation at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Origin

1. Middle English from Latin, comparative of magnus ‘great’; perhaps influenced by French majeur.

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