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noun , or, when used as a title before a person's name, Major
  1. A military rank between captain and lieutenant-colonel.
    • He used to be a in the army.
    • This is Major Jones.
      1. A person of legal age.
      2. The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
    • Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a .
      1. A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
    • She is a math .
Translations: 
  • Dutch: f''
  • French: majeur
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: maggiorenne
verb 
  1. To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university.
    • I have decided to in mathematics.
adjective 
  1. Of great significance or importance.
  2. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
  3. (music) Containing the note which is a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: belangrijk
  • French: majeur , majeure

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