How to pronounce major in English
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"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."
"Of greater dignity; more important."
"Of full legal age."
"Greater by a semitone either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone."
"An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer."
"A person of full age."
"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]."
"A mayor."