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What does major mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word major? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel
Adjective
  1. Of great significance or importance.
  2. Greater in number, quantity, or extent
  3. Of full legal age, having attained majority
  4. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
  5. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
  6. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
Noun
  1. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
  2. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
  3. A person of legal age.
  4. (logic) The major premise.
  5. (Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
  6. A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
  7. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
  8. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
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