{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "məˈʤɔrəti" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/majority.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/majority.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin māiōritātem, accusative of Latin māiōritās, from Latin māiōr (“greater”).\nMorphologically major + -ity" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "More than half (50%) of some group.\nThe majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.\nThose opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.\nAntonym: minority\nHyponyms: absolute majority, double majority, qualified majority, silent majority, simple majority, supermajority\nCoordinate term: plurality\n1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution:The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.\n1920, Champ Clark, Democratic Achievement:But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority." }, { "mean": "The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.\nThe winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%." }, { "mean": "(dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.\nBy the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice." }, { "mean": "(UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.\nOn receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.\n1925, F Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VIII, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN, page 150: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." }, { "mean": "Ancestors; ancestry.\n1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny." } ] }, { "name": "See_also_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Thesaurus:quantifier" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "majority at OneLook Dictionary Search\n“majority”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary\n“majority”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.\nmajority in Britannica Dictionary\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=majorityoldid=71673212\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms borrowed from Middle FrenchEnglish terms derived from Middle FrenchEnglish terms derived from Medieval LatinEnglish terms derived from LatinEnglish 4-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksRhymes:English/ɒɹɪtiRhymes:English/ɒɹɪti/4 syllablesEnglish lemmasEnglish nounsEnglish uncountable nounsEnglish countable nounsEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish dated termsBritish EnglishEnglish terms with collocationsen:CollectivesHidden categories: Terms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/cmnTerms with redundant transliterations/mkRequests for review of Hindi translationsRequests for review of Indonesian translationsRequests for review of Malay translations\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t
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