Majority

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
  • n. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
  • n. The political party, group, or faction having the most power by virtue of its larger representation or electoral strength.
  • n. Law The status of having reached full legal age, with attendant rights and responsibilities.
  • n. The military rank, commission, or office of a major.
  • n. Obsolete The fact or state of being greater; superiority.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. More than half (50%) of some group
  • n. The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
  • n. Legal adulthood
  • n. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
  • n. The military rank of a major.
  • n. The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
  • n. The greater number; more than half
  • n. Ancestors; ancestry.
  • n. 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. See Plurality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being major or greater; superiority; preponderance.
  • n. The greater number; more than half the whole number: as, a majority of mankind; a majority of votes. See plurality.
  • n. The excess of one of two groups of things which have been enumerated over the other: as, the measure was carried by a majority of twenty votes; his majority was two to one.
  • n. Full age; the age at which the laws of a country permit a young person to manage his own affairs and to exercise the rights of citizenship—in most countries twenty-one years.
  • n. The office, rank, or commission of a major.
  • n. [L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
  • n. the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
  • n. (elections) more than half of the votes
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    minority   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    number    age    eld    relative quantity   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    plurality   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    superiority    ancestors    ancestry    adulthood   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    authority    minority    priority    sorority   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    most    thousand    number    member    vote    opinion    percentage    none    minority    handful