major

/ˈmeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
A person of legal age.
The major premise.
A touchdown, or major score.
A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
Of great significance or importance.
Greater in number, quantity, or extent
Of full legal age, having attained majority
Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.

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