Majority
[mə'dʒɒrɪtɪ] or [mə'dʒɔrəti]
Definition
(noun.) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; 'the majority of his customers prefer it'; 'the bulk of the work is finished'.
(noun.) (elections) more than half of the votes.
(noun.) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs.
Checked by Helena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
(n.) The military rank of a major.
(n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
(n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
(n.) Ancestors; ancestry.
(n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
Edited by Jonathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Greater number, more than half.[2]. Manhood, full age.
Checker: Scott
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Superiority, eldership, priority, bulk, preponderance, seniority
ANT:Inferiority, juniority, minority
Typist: Mag
Examples
- I said the majority. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this harsh temper may be found but not in the majority of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One thing it is to say that all proposals must ultimately win the acceptance of the majority; it is quite another to propose nothing which is not immediately acceptable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Taken as they ought to be, the majority of the lads and lasses of the West Riding are gentlemen and ladies, every inch of them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- First, the majority of people in the community have low ideals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company secured a majority of its stock, and Gen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now there are days--I suspect the vast majority of them in most of our lives--when we grind out the thing that is stamped upon us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The vast majority of their drawings represent animals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A high note of contempt for democracy was sounded: The soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities, have welded together the German Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He longs for majorities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Representatives who serve some majorities may in reality order the nation about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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