Meaning of majority | Babel Free

Definitions

1. More than half (50%) of some group.
   countable, uncountable
2. In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.
   countable, uncountable
3. great, or greater, in size, importance etc. major and minor roads; a major discovery. groot عَظيم، كَبير، رَئيسي важен principal velký; větší bedeutend stor; vigtig μείζων, πολύ σημαντικός mayor, principal tähtsam اصلی pää- majeurגדול, חשוב बड़ा, मुख्य velik, važan nagyobb besar mikill, helstur, aðal-; mikilfenglegur maggiore, più importante 重要な 큰, 중요한 pagrindinis, didesnis, svarbesnis lielākais; nozīmīgākais besar hoofd-, belangrijk stor, hoved-, viktiggłówny, większy اصلى او اساسى principal...
   etc
4. Legal adulthood, age of majority.
   countable, dated, uncountable
5. (with in) (American) to study a certain subject in which you specialize at college or university. She is majoring in philosophy. jou hoofvak is يَتَخَصَّص في موضوع رئيسي специализирам formar specializovat se auf das Hauptfach spezielisieren have ... som hovedfag παίρνω ειδίκευση (π.χ. στο κολέγιο) especializarse en peaainena õppima, eriala õppima درس خواندن opiskella pääaineenaan se spécialiser en לִלמוֹד כְּמִקצוֹעַ רָאשִי मुख्य विषय की पढ़ाई करना specijalizirati főtantárgynak választ mempel...
   with
6. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
   UK, countable, uncountable
7. (often abbreviated to Maj.-Gen. when written) in the British army, (a person of) the rank next below lieutenant-general. majoor-generaal لِواء: رُتْبَه عَسْكَرِيَّه майор-генерал general generálmajor der Generalmajor generalmajor υποστράτηγος general de división kindralmajor سر لشگر kenraalimajuri général/-ale de division אלוף मेजर जनरल general bojnik vezérőrnagy mayor jenderal undirhershöfðingi maggior generale 陸軍少将 육군 소장 generolas majoras ģenerālmajors mejar jeneral generaal-majoorgeneralma...
   often abbreviated to
8. Ancestors; ancestry.
   countable, uncountable
9. legal adulthood (in Britain, eighteen years of age). He has not yet reached the age of majority. meerderjarigheid سِن الرُّشْد пълнолетие maioridade zletilost die Volljährigkeit myndighedsalder ενηλικίωσηmayoría de edad täisiga سن بلوغ täysi-ikäisyys majoritéבגרות वयस्कता की आयु punoljetnost nagykorúság tingkat dewasa lögræðisaldur maggiore età 成年 (법률상의) 성인 pilnametystė pilngadība cukup umur meerderjarigheidmyndighetsalderpełnoletność د بلوغ عمر maioridade majorat совершеннолетие plnoletosť p...
10. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
11. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
12. The political party, group, or faction having the most power by virtue of its larger representation or electoral strength.
13. Law The age at which a person is recognized as an adult by the law.
    Law
14. The military rank, commission, or office of a major.
15. the greater number or part of something: the majority of the constituents.

Equivalents

Examples

“The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.”

“Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.”

“The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.”

“But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.”

“They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.”

“The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.”

“The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.”

“Now, there is talk of Democrats potentially being locked out of a Senate majority for a time to come because of trends in the electorate. […] This shouldn’t be surprising. As political analyst Sean Trende posited in the book “The Lost Majority,” history is filled with examples of majorities falling apart and the parties coming in and out of power.”

“By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.”

“On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.”

“He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns.”

“Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.”

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