MAJOR

adj of full legal age.

2. major ·adj a person of full age.

3. major ·adj a mayor.

4. major ·adj of greater dignity; more important.

5. major ·adj greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.

6. major ·adj an officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

7. major ·adj 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.

8. major ·adj 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 . therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].