- major
- [[t]me͟ɪʤə(r)[/t]]
♦majors, majoring, majored1) ADJ-GRADED: ADJ n You use major when you want to describe something that is more important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
The major factor in the decision to stay or to leave was usually professional...
Drug abuse has long been a major problem for the authorities there...
Exercise has a major part to play in preventing and combating disease.
Syn:2) N-COUNT; N-TITLE; N-VOC A major is an officer who is one rank above captain in the British army or the United States army, air force, or marines.I was a major in the war, you know.
...Major Alan Bulman.
3) N-COUNT: oft poss N At a university or college in the United States, a student's major is the main subject that they are studying.English majors would be asked to explore the roots of language.
4) N-COUNT: n N At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology major, geology is the main subject they are studying.She was named the outstanding undergraduate history major at the University of Oklahoma.
5) VERB If a student at a university or college in the United States majors in a particular subject, that subject is the main one they study.[V in n] He majored in finance at Claremont Men's College in California.
6) ADJ: n ADJ, ADJ n In music, a major scale is one in which the third note is two tones higher than the first....Mozart's Symphony No 35 in D Major.
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English dictionary. 2008.