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.

2. The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

3. [Cf. L. majores.]

Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]

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.

To go over to, or To join, the majority, to die.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)