Definition of major

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Major (a.) A mayor.

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Many :: Many (a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community..
Major :: Major (a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
Bare :: Bare (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority..
Drum Major :: Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
Major :: Major (a.) A mayor.
Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..
Wagoner :: Wagoner (n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa..
Do :: Do (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet..
Majorcan :: Majorcan (a.) Of or pertaining to Majorca.
Sumptuary :: Sumption (n.) The major premise of a syllogism.
Waybread :: Waybread (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).
Seventh :: Seventh (n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished..
Oxeye :: Oxeye (n.) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus)..
Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..
Major :: Major (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]..
Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..
Majority :: Majority (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
Maggiore :: Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major..
Septentrio :: Septentrio (n.) The constellation Ursa Major.
Lieutenant General :: Lieutenant general () An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.
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