1. • noun - a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines
   • noun - British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
   • noun - a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
   • noun - the principal field of study of a student at a university
   • verb - have as one's principal field of study
   • adj - of greater importance or stature or rank
   • adj - greater in scope or effect
   • adj - greater in number or size or amount
   • adj - of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
   • adj - of a scale or mode
   • adj - of greater seriousness or danger
   • adj - of full legal age
   • adj - of the elder of two boys with the same family name
2. • Greater than others in importance or rank: a major artist.
   • Great in scope or effect: a major improvement.
   • Great in number, size, or extent: the major portion of the population.
   • Requiring great attention or concern; very serious: a major illness.
   • Having attained full legal age.
   • Of or relating to the field of academic study in which a student specializes.
   • Music.
   • Designating a scale or mode having half steps between the third and fourth and the seventh and eighth degrees.
   • Equivalent to the distance between the tonic note and the second or third or sixth or seventh degrees of a major scale or mode: a major interval.
   • Based on a major scale: major key.
   • Abbr.
   • A comissioned rank in the U.
   • A similar rank in another military or paramilitary organization.
   • One who holds this rank.
   • One that is superior in rank, importance, or ability: an oil-producing country considered as one of the majors.
   • One who has reached full legal age.
   • A field of study chosen as an academic specialty.
   • A student specializing in such studies: a linguistics major.
   • Logic.
   • A major premise.
   • A major term.
   • A major scale, key, interval, or mode.
3. • v - to pursue a specific principal course of study

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