'Majority' definitions:
Definition of 'majority'
From: WordNet
noun
The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished" [syn: majority, bulk] [ant: minority]
noun
(elections) more than half of the votes [syn: majority, absolute majority]
noun
Definition of 'Majority'
From: GCIDE
- Majority \Ma*jor"i*ty\, n.; pl. Majorities. [F. majorit['e]. See Major.]
- 1. The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically: (a) The military rank of a major. (b) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Cf. L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality. [1913 Webster]
- To go over to the majority or To join the majority, to die. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'majority'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- adulthood,
- adultness,
- age of consent,
- ascendancy,
- best part,
- better part,
- body,
- bulk,
- deanship,
- driving age,
- essence,
- excellence,
- favor,
- flower of age,
- full age,
- full bloom,
- full growth,
- fullgrownness,
- generality,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- greatness,
- grown-upness,
- incomparability,
- inimitability,
- lead,
- legal age,
- legalis homo,
- main body,
- major part,
- manhood,
- manlihood,
- mass,
- mature age,
- maturity,
- meat,
- more than half,
- most,
- one-upmanship,
- plurality,
- precedence,
- predominance,
- predomination,
- preeminence,
- preponderance,
- preponderancy,
- prepotence,
- prepotency,
- prerogative,
- prestige,
- prime,
- prime of life,
- priority,
- privilege,
- right-of-way,
- ripe age,
- riper years,
- seniority,
- skill,
- substance,
- success,
- superiority,
- the greatest number,
- thrust,
- toga virilis,
- transcendence,
- transcendency,
- virility,
- virtuosity,
- womanhood,
- womanlihood,
- years of discretion
Words containing 'Majority'
- Major,
- Majorate,
- Majoration,
- Majorities,
- majors,
- 'Etat Major,
- Astrantia major,
- Brigade major,
- Canis major,
- Dendrocopus major,
- Drum major,
- Dryobstes major,
- Fife major,
- Gallinago major,
- Havildar major,
- Macropus major,
- Major County,
- Major general,
- Major key,
- Major offense,
- Major scale,
- Major second,
- Major sixth,
- Major third,
- Major, OK,
- Parus major,
- Plantago major,
- Puffinus major,
- Quiscalus major,
- Sergeant major,
- To go over to the majority,
- To join the majority,
- Trumpet major,
- Ursa Major,
- Vis major,
- absolute majority,
- age of majority,
- c major,
- clusia major,
- epilepsia major,
- john major,
- major axis,
- major league,
- major leaguer,
- major lobe,
- major mode,
- major planet,
- major power,
- major premise,
- major premiss,
- major suit,
- major surgery,
- major term,
- major tranquilizer,
- major tranquilliser,
- major tranquillizer,
- majority leader,
- majority operation,
- majority opinion,
- majority rule,
- pectoralis major,
- pipe major,
- relative majority,
- silent majority,
- teres major,
- thalassaemia major,
- thalassemia major,
- variola major,
- vinca major,
- Brassica oleracea major,
- Major County, OK,
- Major-domo,
- Tierce-major,
- c major scale,
- command sergeant major,
- john r. major,
- john roy major,
- major affective disorder,
- major depressive episode,
- major diatonic scale,
- major fast day,
- major form class,
- major-general,
- major-league,
- musculus pectoralis major,
- musculus rhomboideus major,
- musculus teres major,
- rhomboideus major muscle,
- scale of c major,
- scipio africanus major,
- teres major muscle,
- variola major virus,
- major-league club,
- major-league team,
- publius cornelius scipio africanus major