Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word major. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in major.
Definitions and meaning of major
major
Alternative forms
majour(obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Englishmajor, from Latinmaior, comparative of magnus(“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂yōs(“greater”), comparative of *meǵh₂-(“great”). Compare West Frisianmajoar(“major”), Dutchmajoor(“major”), Frenchmajeur. Doublet of mayor.
Pronunciation
enPR: mā'jə(r)
IPA(key): /ˈmeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Adjective
major (comparativemore major, superlativemost major)
(attributive):
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
Synonym:main
Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
Synonym:considerable
Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
(medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
Of full legal age, having attained majority.
(education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
(music):
Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
Having a major third above the root.
(postpositive)(of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
(campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
(UK, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers, appended to a surname in public schools.
(logic)
Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
Antonyms
minor
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
major (pluralmajors)
(military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
Meronyms:drum major, trumpet major
A person of legal age.
Antonym:minor
(music):
Ellipsis of major key.
Ellipsis of major interval.
Ellipsis of major scale.
(campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
(education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
Synonym:(UK)course
A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
(logic):
Ellipsis of major term.
Ellipsis of major premise.
(bridge)Ellipsis of major suit.
(Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
(Australian rules football) A goal.
(British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
(entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
(obsolete)Alternative form of mayor and mair.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
major (third-person singular simple presentmajors, present participlemajoring, simple past and past participlemajored)
(intransitive)Used in a phrasal verb: major in.
Derived terms
double-major
Related terms
majorant
Translations
References
“major”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“major”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Jarmo, joram
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latinmaiōrem.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic)[məˈʒo]
IPA(key): (Valencian)[maˈd͡ʒoɾ]
Adjective
majorm or f (masculine and feminine pluralmajors)
larger (superlative: el major / la major—largest)
older (superlative: el major / la major—oldest)
main, principal
(music)major
Derived terms
majorista
majorment
Related terms
majoria
Noun
majorm (pluralmajors)
(military)major
Noun
majorm or f by sense (pluralmajors)
someone of age, adult
Further reading
“major” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“major”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“major” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“major” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈmajor]
Noun
majorm anim
major(military)
Declension
Further reading
major in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
major in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanMajor, from Spanish, from Latinmaior.
Noun
major (genitivemajori, partitivemajorit)
major(rank)
Declension
Derived terms
kindralmajor
French
Etymology
From Middle Frenchmajor, from Spanishmayor, from Latinmaior. Doublet of maire, majeur, andmayeur. The use for a non-commissioned officer in the French army (since 1972) is a short form of adjudant-major or sergent-major.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ma.ʒɔʁ/
Noun
majorm or f (pluralmajors)(military)
(France) the highest non-commissioned officer rank: sergeant major, “major”
Coordinate terms:(French army)commandant, chef, (navies)capitaine de corvette
Derived terms
Further reading
“major”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
From Bavarian [Term?], compare Middle High Germanmeier, Old High Germanmeior, meiū̌r, standard GermanMeier(“administrator or leaseholder of a manor”); ultimately from Latinmaior(“greater; leader”). The semantic shift from the person to the place is unclear; either via their identification, or by a clipping of a derivation like majorság, majorház, majorszoba. The German equivalent terms for the place are Meierhof and Meierei(“feudal manor”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈmɒjor]
Hyphenation: ma‧jor
Rhymes: -or
Noun
major (pluralmajorok)
farm
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
(farm): major in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
([archaic] major [military rank]): major , redirecting to its synonym őrnagy in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
major (neutermajus, positivemagnus); third declension
Alternative spelling of maior.
Inflection
Third-declension comparative adjective.
References
“major”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
major in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanMajor, from Latinmāior. Doublet of mer(“mayor”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈma.jɔr/
Rhymes: -ajɔr
Syllabification: ma‧jor
Noun
majorm pers (abbreviationmjr)
major (military rank)
Declension
Further reading
major in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
major in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchmajor. Doublet of maior.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ɔɾ
Hyphenation: ma‧jor
Noun
majorm or f by sense (pluralmajores)
(military)major(military rank)
Noun
majorm (pluralmajores)
(Brazil) brown-chested martin (Progne tapera)
Synonym:andorinha-do-campo
Adjective
majorm or f (pluralmajores)
(rare)major
Synonym:maior
References
Further reading
“major” in iDicionário Aulete.
“major” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
“major” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
“major” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchmajeur, from Latinmaior. Doublet of maior and possibly mare.
Adjective
majorm or n (feminine singularmajoră, masculine pluralmajori, feminine and neuter pluralmajore)