majority

Etymology
From, from , accusative of , from.

Morphologically

Noun

 * 1) More than half (50%) of some group.
 * 2) In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition;  in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate.
 * 3)  Legal adulthood, age of majority.
 * 4)  The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
 * 5) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1) In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition;  in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate.
 * 2)  Legal adulthood, age of majority.
 * 3)  The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
 * 4) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1)  Legal adulthood, age of majority.
 * 2)  The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
 * 3) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1)  The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
 * 2) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1) Ancestors; ancestry.
 * 1) Ancestors; ancestry.

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with a plurality, i.e. the greatest share of a total (which may be less than half).
 * In cases of votes, the terms simple majority or relative majority are used to explicitly clarify a motion needs more votes in support of a proposal than against it; whereas the term absolute majority refers to more than half of all votes cast, including blanks and abstentions.

Translations

 * Albanian:, mazhorancë
 * Arabic: غَالِبِيَّة, أَغْلَبِيّة, أَكْثَرِيَّة, مُعْظَم
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: əksəriyyət,
 * Bashkir: күпселек
 * Belarusian: бо́льшасць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အများစု
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: plimulto, plejparto
 * Estonian: enamus
 * Finnish:, yksinkertainen enemmistö
 * French:
 * Galician: maioría
 * Georgian: უმრავლესობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: көпшілік
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: majōritās, plēritās
 * Latvian: vairākums
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: мнозинство, мнозинство
 * Malay: majoriti
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: maġġoranza
 * Maori: nuinga
 * Navajo: agháago áníidlą́ą́ʼ
 * Norman: mâjorité
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: majoritet, fleirtal
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, اکثریت ساده
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mòr-chuid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: већина
 * Roman: većina
 * Slovak: väčšina
 * Slovene: večina
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: köplük, köpçülik
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اَکْثَرِیَّت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yiddish: מערהייט


 * Azerbaijani: çoxluq, əksəriyyət
 * Bulgarian: мнозинство
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: maioría
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean: 득표차(得票差)
 * Macedonian: мнозинство
 * Norwegian:, seiersmargin
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mòr-chuid
 * Urdu: اَکْثَرِیَّت


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: majoria d'edat
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: maggiore età
 * Macedonian: полноле́тство, полноле́тност
 * Norman: mâjorité
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: mayoría de edad
 * Thai:


 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Malay: