FromMiddle English major Latin maior magnus ( “ great, large; noble, important ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs ( “ greater ” ) , comparative of*meǵh₂- ( “ great ” ) . CompareWest Frisian majoar ( “ major ” ) ,Dutch majoor ( “ major ” ) ,French majeur Doublet ofmayor
major (comparative moremajor ,superlative mostmajor )
( attributive ) Greater indignity ,rank ,importance ,significance , orinterest .Greater innumber ,quantity , orextent .Synonym: main themajor part of the assembly
Notable orconspicuous ineffect orscope .Synonym: considerable Prominent orsignificant insize ,amount , ordegree .to earn somemajor cash
amajor exhibition
1995 I Got 5 on It ”, inOperation Stackola , performed byLuniz :I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smokedmajor weed, bro
1995 Paul Vautin ,Turn It Up! , Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page129 :[B]y the time I turned back to the screen, Jamie was fully dressed,major bummer.
( medicine ) great risk ,serious ,life-threatening .to suffer from amajor illness
Of fulllegal age , having attainedmajority .major children
( education ) subject ofacademic study chosen as a field ofspecialization .( music ) Havingintervals of asemitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighthdegrees .( of ascale ) major scale
Equivalent to that between thetonic and another note of amajor scale , and greater by asemitone than the correspondingminor interval .( of aninterval ) major third
Having amajor third above theroot .major triad
( postpositive ) ( of akey ) Based on amajor scale , tending to produce abright orjoyful effect.( campanology ) Bell changes rung on eight bells.( UK , dated ) elder of twobrothers (or theeldest of three),appended to asurname inpublic schools ( logic ) Occurring as thepredicate in the conclusion of acategorical syllogism .( of aterm ) Containing the majorterm in acategorical syllogism .( of apremise ) Albanian:madhor (sq) Belarusian:гало́ўны (be) m ( halówny ) Bulgarian:важен (bg) ( važen ) Finnish:tärkeä (fi) ,merkittävä (fi) French:majeur (fr) ,de taille (fr) ,très important German:bedeutend (de) ,wichtig (de) Greek:μεγάλος (el) ( megálos ) Hungarian:jelentős (hu) ,lényeges (hu) ,számottevő (hu) Italian:significativo (it) ,principale (it) ,notevole (it) ,importante (it) Latin:maior (la) ,major Persian:مهم (fa) ( mohemm ) ,بزرگ (fa) ( bozorg ) Polish:poważny (pl) ,istotny (pl) ,znaczny (pl) Portuguese:maior (pt) ,principal (pt) ,mor (pt) Spanish:significativo (es) ,mayúsculo (es) ,protagónico grosso (es) ( Latin America ) ,groso (es) ( Souther Cone ) ,rotundo (es)
greater in number, quantity, or extent
of full legal age; having attained majority
music: containing the note which is a major third above the tonic
Translations to be checked
major (plural majors
( military ) rank ofofficer in thearmy and the USair force , betweencaptain andlieutenant colonel .He used to be amajor in the army.
Anofficer in charge of a section ofband instruments ,used with amodifier .Meronyms: drum major trumpet major Aperson oflegal age .Antonym: minor ( music ) Ellipsis ofmajor key Ellipsis ofmajor interval Ellipsis ofmajor scale ( campanology ) change-ringing using eightbells .Alarge ,commercially successfulcompany , especially arecord label that is bigger than anindie . ( education , Canada ,US , Australia , New Zealand ) principal subject orcourse of astudent working toward adegree at acollege oruniversity .Synonym: ( UK ) course Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen amajor .
Astudent at acollege oruniversity specializing on a given area of study.She is a mathmajor .
( logic ) Ellipsis ofmajor term Ellipsis ofmajor premise ( bridge ) Ellipsis ofmajor suit ( Canadian football ) touchdown , ormajor score .( Australian rules football ) goal .( British slang , dated ) elder brother (especially at apublic school ).( entomology ) leaf-cutter ant that acts as asoldier , defending thenest .( obsolete ) Alternative form ofmayor andmair military rank
Afrikaans:majoor Albanian:major (sq) m Arabic:رَائِد m ( rāʔid ) Armenian:մայոր (hy) ( mayor ) Azerbaijani:mayor (az) Belarusian:маёр m ( majór ) Bengali:মেজর (bn) ( mejor ) Bulgarian:майо́р m ( majór ) Burmese:ဗိုလ်မှူး (my) ( builhmu: ) Catalan:major (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:少校 (zh) ( shàoxiào ) Czech:major (cs) m Danish:major (da) c Dutch:majoor (nl) m Esperanto:majoro (eo) Estonian:major (et) Finnish:majuri (fi) French:commandant (fr) m major (fr) m chef d'escadrons (fr) m ( cavalry ) ,chef d'escadron (fr) m ( artillery ) Galician:maior (gl) m Georgian:მაიორი ( maiori ) German:Major (de) m Greek:ταγματάρχης (el) ( tagmatárchis ) ( army ) ,επισμηναγός (el) ( episminagós ) ( airforce ) Hindi:मेजर (hi) m ( mejar ) Hungarian:őrnagy (hu) Indonesian:mayor (id) Irish:maor m maor airm m Italian:maggiore (it) m Japanese:少佐 (ja) ( しょうさ, shōsa ) ,少領 (ja) ( しょうりょう, shōryō ) Korean:소좌 ( sojwa ) ,소령 (ko) ( soryeong ) Kyrgyz:миң башы ( miŋ başı ) Lao:ພັນຕີ (lo) ( phan tī ) Latin:maior (la) m major m Latvian:majors m Lithuanian:majoras m Macedonian:ма́јор m ( májor ) Malay:mejar Manx:ard-chaptan m Maori:meiha Mongolian:хошууч (mn) ( xošuuč ) Persian:سرگرد (fa) ( sargord ) Polish:major (pl) m Portuguese:major (pt) m Romanian:maior (ro) m maiori m pl Russian:майо́р (ru) m ( majór ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:бо̑јнӣк m бо̑јница f ма̀јо̄р m Roman:bȏjnīk (sh) m bȏjnica (sh) f màjōr (sh) m Sicilian:majuri (scn) ,supiriuri (scn) Slovak:major m Slovene:majór m majórka f Spanish:comandante (es) m mayor (es) m Swahili:meja (sw) Swedish:major (sv) c Tajik:майор ( mayor ) Tatar:майор ( mayor ) Telugu:మేజరు ( mējaru ) Thai:พันตรี (th) ( pan-trii ) Turkish:binbaşı (tr) Ukrainian:майо́р m ( majór ) Uzbek:mayor (uz) Vietnamese:thiếu tá (vi)
principal subject or course
Arabic:Gulf Arabic:تخصص ( taḵaṣuṣ ) Bulgarian:специализация f ( specializacija ) Chinese:Mandarin:主修 (zh) ( zhǔxiū ) ,專攻 / 专攻 (zh) ( zhuāngōng ) ,專業 / 专业 (zh) ( zhuānyè ) Dutch:hoofdvak (nl) n Esperanto:ĉefa fako Finnish:pääaine (fi) French:matière principale f German:Hauptfach (de) n Hauptstudienfach m Hauptstudiengang m Greek:ειδικότητα (el) f ( eidikótita ) Hungarian:szak (hu) ,alapszak főszak (hu) ,főtárgy (hu) Indonesian:jurusan (id) Irish:príomhábhar m Italian:laurea (it) f corso di laurea m Japanese:専攻 (ja) ( せんこう, senkō ) Korean:전공(專攻) (ko) ( jeon'gong ) Polish:kierunek (pl) m rozszerzenie (pl) n specjalizacja (pl) f Russian:профили́рующая дисципли́на f ( profilírujuščaja disciplína ) ,гла́вный предме́т m ( glávnyj predmét ) ,основно́й предме́т m ( osnovnój predmét ) Spanish:asignatura principal f carrera académica [mayor]f programa de estudio [s]f especialización (es) f Swedish:huvudämne n Tagalog:kalakhan Thai:วิชาเอก (th) ( wí-chaa-èek ) Turkish:bölüm (tr) Ukrainian:спеціа́льність (uk) f ( speciálʹnistʹ )
student specializing in a specified subject
major (third-person singular simple present majors present participle majoring simple past and past participle majored
( intransitive ) Used in a phrasal verb:major in Translations to be checked
Inherited fromLatin maiōrem
major m or f masculine and feminine plural majors
larger (superlative:el major / la major —largest )older (superlative:el major / la major —oldest )main ,principal ( music ) major major m plural majors
( military ) major major m or f by sense plural majors
someoneof age ,adult “major ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “major ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “major” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“major” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.major m anim relational adjective majorský
major ( military ) Declension ofmajor (hard masculine animate )
Borrowed fromGerman Major Spanish Latin maior
major (genitive majori partitive majorit
major ( rank ) FromMiddle French major Spanish mayor Latin maior Doublet ofmaire majeur , and mayeur adjudant-major sergent-major
major m or f plural majors ( military )
( France ) non-commissioned officer rank:sergeant major major Coordinate terms: ( other armies ) adjudant-chef adjudant-major ( North America , Belgium , Switzerland , Luxembourg , DRC) major ( field officer rank) Coordinate terms: ( French army ) commandant chef ( navies ) capitaine de corvette FromBavarian [Term?] , compareMiddle High German meier Old High German meior meiū̌r German Meier ( “ administrator or leaseholder of a manor ” ) ; ultimately fromLatin maior ( “ greater; leader ” ) . The semantic shift from the person to the place is unclear; either via their identification, or by a clipping of a derivation likemajorság, majorház, majorszoba .[ 1] Meierhof Meierei ( “ feudal manor ” ) .
IPA (key ) : [ˈmɒjor] Hyphenation:ma‧jor Rhymes:-or major (plural majorok
farm ^ Benkő, Loránd, ed.A magyar nyelv történeti-etimológiai szótára I–IV. (“The Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Budapest: Akadémiai, 1967–1984.→ISBN .Vol. 1:A–Gy (1967), vol. 2:H–O (1970), vol. 3:Ö–Zs (1976), vol. 4: index (1984). ( farm ) : major in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . ( [archaic] major [military rank] ) : major , redirecting to its synonymőrnagy in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . major (not comparable )
comparative degree ofgrande bigger major (comparative ,neuter majus positive magnus third declension
alternative spelling ofmaior Third-declension comparative adjective.
Borrowed fromGerman Major Latin maior Doublet ofmer ( “ mayor ” ) .
major m pers abbreviation mjr
major ( military rank ) major inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANmajor in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromFrench major [ 1] Doublet ofmaior mor
Rhymes:-ɔɾ Hyphenation:ma‧jor major m or f by sense plural majores
( military ) major ( military rank ) ( Brazil , colloquial , used in the vocative) A term ofaddress for someone Synonyms: amigo chefe grande jogador capitão major m plural majores
( Brazil ) brown-chested martin (Progne tapera Synonym: andorinha-do-campo major m or f plural majores
( rare ) major Synonym: maior “major ”, inDicionário Aulete Digital 2025 “major ”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa 2025 “major ”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa 2025 “major ”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa 2025 Borrowed fromFrench majeur Latin maior Doublet ofmaior mare
major m or n feminine singular majoră masculine plural majori feminine and neuter plural majore
major ( significant ) Borrowed fromGerman Major
IPA (key ) : /mǎjoːr/ Hyphenation:ma‧jor màjōr m anim Cyrillic spelling ма̀јо̄р
( military , Serbo-Croatian) major ( rank ) Synonym: tisućnik major c
amajor [ 1] aSquadron Leader [ 1] 
