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