Major

1. (adj) Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest. 2. (adj) Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree. 3. (adj) (attributive): 4. (adj) Greater in number, quantity, or extent. 5. (adj) (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening. 6. (adj) Of full legal age, having attained majority. 7. (adj) (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization. 8. (n) (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. 9. (n) A person of legal age. 10. (n) (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel. 11. (adj) Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope. 12. (adj) (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect. 13. (adj) Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval) 14. (adj) Having a major third above the root. 15. (adj) Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale) 16. (adj) (music): 17. (n) A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie. 18. (n) (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score. 19. (n) (Australian rules football) A goal. 20. (n) (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells. 21. (n) (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest. 22. (adj) (logic) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term) 23. (adj) (logic) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise) 24. (adj) (UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers (or the eldest of three), appended to a surname in public schools. 25. (n) (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school). 26. (adj) (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells. 27. (n) An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier. 28. (n) A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study. 29. (v) (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: major in. 30. (n) (military) Title for an army officer with the rank of major. 31. (n) An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States. 32. (n) A village in the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale, No. 321, Saskatchewan, Canada. 33. (n) A surname. 34. (n) (music): [(music) A musical key based upon a major scale.] 35. (n) Ellipsis of major key. [(music) A musical key based upon a major scale.] 36. (n) Ellipsis of major scale. [(music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.] 37. (n) Ellipsis of major interval. [(music) an interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh] 38. (n) (logic): [(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.] 39. (n) Ellipsis of major term. [(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.] 40. (n) Ellipsis of major premise. [(logic) In a categorical syllogism, the premise whose terms are the syllogism's major term and middle term.] 41. (n) (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit. [(bridge) Either of the suits of spades (♠) and hearts (♥), which rank higher than the minor suits (diamonds and clubs).] 42. (n) (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.