major

/ˈmeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)//ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/

noun

1
A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
“He used to be a major in the army.”

1
The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
“Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.”
2
A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
“She is a math major.”
3
A person of legal age.
4
The major premise.
5
A touchdown, or major score.
6
A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
7
(British slang) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
8
A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

1
To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
“I have decided to major in mathematics.”

1
Of great significance or importance.
2
Greater in number, quantity, or extent
“the major part of the assembly”
3
Of full legal age, having attained majority
4
Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
“A major scale.”
5
Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
6
Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
7
(campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.

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