majority

UK /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/ US /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

More than half (50%) of some group.

The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.

2

In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate

The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.

The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.

3

Legal adulthood, age of majority.

By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.

4

The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.

On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.

He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns.

5

Ancestors; ancestry.

Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.

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