MAJORITY
\məd͡ʒˈɒɹɪtˌi], \mədʒˈɒɹɪtˌi], \m_ə_dʒ_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˌi]\
Definitions of MAJORITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
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The military rank of a major.
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The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
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The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
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The military rank of a major.
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The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
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The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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More than half of something, such as the votes cast in an election. The age at which a person can exercise the legal rights of an adult, such as entering into contracts or voting. See age of majority.
By Oddity Software
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The greater of two numbers looked upon as parts of a whole; the difference between this greater number and the smaller; more than half of a total; the full legal age of twenty-one years; rank, etc., of a major.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The greater number: the amount between the greater and the less number: full age (at 21): the office or rank of major.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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