major

Etymology
From, from , comparative of , from , comparative of. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Adjective

 * 1) Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
 * 2) Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
 * 3) Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
 * 4) Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
 * 5)  Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
 * 6) Of full legal age, having attained majority.
 * 7)  Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
 * 8) Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
 * 9) Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
 * 10) Having a major third above the root.
 * 11)   Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
 * 12)  Bell changes rung on eight bells.
 * 13)  Indicating the elder of two brothers,.
 * 14) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
 * 15) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
 * 1) Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
 * 2) Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
 * 3) Having a major third above the root.
 * 4)   Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
 * 5)  Bell changes rung on eight bells.
 * 6)  Indicating the elder of two brothers,.
 * 7) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
 * 8) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
 * 1)  Bell changes rung on eight bells.
 * 2)  Indicating the elder of two brothers,.
 * 3) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
 * 4) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
 * 1) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.

Translations

 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , très important
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latin:, major
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: plus grand, plus important,
 * Galician:, meirande
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin:, major
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: fuldmyndig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: myndugur
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: myndig
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: мажорен
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: dur
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Czech:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:

Noun

 * 1)  A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
 * 2) An officer in charge of a section of band instruments,.
 * 3) A person of legal age.
 * 4)  A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
 * 5) A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
 * 6)  The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
 * 7) A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
 * 8)  A touchdown, or major score.
 * 9)  A goal.
 * 10)  An elder brother (especially at a public school).
 * 11)  A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
 * 12)   and .
 * 1)  The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
 * 2) A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
 * 3)  A touchdown, or major score.
 * 4)  A goal.
 * 5)  An elder brother (especially at a public school).
 * 6)  A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
 * 7)   and .
 * 1)  A touchdown, or major score.
 * 2)  A goal.
 * 3)  An elder brother (especially at a public school).
 * 4)  A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
 * 5)   and .
 * 1)  An elder brother (especially at a public school).
 * 2)  A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
 * 3)   and .

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَائِد
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: маёр
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: майо́р
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მაიორი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: maor, maor airm
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 소좌,
 * Kyrgyz: миң башы
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, major
 * Latvian: majors
 * Lithuanian: majoras
 * Macedonian: ма́јор
 * Malay: mejar
 * Manx: ard-chaptan
 * Maori: meiha
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, maiori
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бо̑јнӣк, бо̑јница, ма̀јо̄р
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: major
 * Slovene: majór, majórka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: майор
 * Tatar: майор
 * Telugu: మేజరు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: майо́р
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, nagykorú személy
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: полноле́тник
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: mayor de edad
 * Tatar: буйга җиткән, яше җиткән, балигъ булган


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: تخصص
 * Bulgarian: специализация
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ĉefa fako
 * Finnish:
 * French: matière principale
 * German:, Hauptstudienfach, Hauptstudiengang
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, alapszak, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: príomhábhar
 * Italian:, corso di laurea
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Russian: профили́рующая дисципли́на, гла́вный предме́т, основно́й предме́т
 * Spanish: asignatura principal
 * Swedish: huvudämne
 * Tagalog: kalakhan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Finnish: pääaineopiskelija
 * French: étudiant spécialisé, étudiante spécialisée
 * Greek: ειδικευόμενος
 * Hungarian: (… szakos) hallgató
 * Indonesian:

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: opiskella pääaineena
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: specjalizować
 * Portuguese: especializar-se
 * Russian:


 * Latvian:

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) larger (superlative: el major / la major—largest)
 * 2) older (superlative: el major / la major—oldest)
 * 3) main, principal

Noun

 * 1) someone of age, adult

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  rank

Etymology
From, from , from. . The use for a non-commissioned officer in the French army (since 1972) is a short form of or.

Noun

 * 1)  the highest non-commissioned officer rank:, “”
 * 2)   field officer rank
 * 1)   field officer rank

Etymology
From, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , standard 🇨🇬; ultimately from 🇨🇬. The semantic shift from the person to the place is unclear; either via their identification, or by a clipping of a derivation like. The German equivalent terms for the place are and.

Noun

 * 1) farm

Adjective

 * 1)  bigger

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1) major

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)   military rank

Noun

 * 1)  brown-chested martin

Etymology
, from. and possibly.

Adjective

 * 1)  significant

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)   rank

Synonyms

 * (Serbo-Croatian):

Noun

 * 1) a
 * 2) a Squadron Leader (in the British Royal Air Force)