meaning of major
1. Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
2. Of greater dignity; more important.
3. Of full legal age.
4. Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
5. An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
6. A person of full age.
7. That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
8. A mayor.
9. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
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