Definitions for majors

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majors ma·jor

Spelling: [mey-jer]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ dʒər/

Majors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in majors (ajmors).

Definitions for majors

noun

1. a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
2. one of superior rank, ability, etc., in a specified class.
3. Education. a subject or field of study chosen by a student to represent his or her principal interest and upon which a large share of his or her efforts are concentrated: a student engaged in such study.
4. a person of full legal age (opposed to minor).
5. Music. a major interval, chord, scale, etc.
6. the majors. Sports. the major leagues: the companies or organizations that lead or control a particular field of activity:
7. Clarence, born 1936, U.S. novelist and poet.
8. John, born 1943, British political leader: prime minister 1990–97.

adjective

1. greater in size, extent, or importance:
2. great, as in rank or importance:
3. serious or risky:
4. of or relating to the majority:
5. of full legal age.
6. Music. (of an interval) being between the tonic and the second, third, sixth, or seventh degrees of a major scale: (of a chord) having a major third between the root and the note next above it.
7. pertaining to the subject in which a student takes the most courses:
8. (initial capital letter) (of one of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the elder or higher in standing:

verb (used without object)

1. to follow a major course of study:

Origin of majors

1350-1400; Latin, comparative of magnus large (cf. majesty); replacing Middle English majour Anglo-French Latin, as above

Examples for majors

Those who have watched anti-gay groups closely suggest that there will be two major strategic shifts in their strategy.

Iraq may have been an irregular fight, but it had major moments.

Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.

To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

major Vernier, of Pulaski's legion, and twenty-five men, were killed.

Allen was mounted on the major's charger, and was ordered to swim the river.

This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

"Well, you see, what was a fellow to do," returned the major suspiciously.

major John Postell had been pitched upon as the first victim.

We are confident of the success of this major venture in world recovery.