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majority

noun

Simple meaning

More than half of the votes.

Pronunciation

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muhjawruhtee

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məˈdʒɔɹəti

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Definition

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noun

  1. elections

    More than half of the votes

  2. More than half (50%) of some group.

  3. 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 and all of the other candidates combined.

  4. uk

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

  5. Ancestors; ancestry.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
A2 · Elementary
Frequency
Common
Typical Use
Everyday English

Word Aura™

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This meaning: (elections) more than half of the votes

Used this way, majority is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

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  • “The majority of his customers prefer it.”noun

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Office

qualified majority

Property

simple majority

Other combinations

majority rulemajority opinionmajority leaderabsolute majoritymoral majoritygreat majority

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Word Family

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Compound terms

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  • majority leadernounCompound term

    Leader of the majority party in a legislature.

  • majority operationnounCompound term

    A threshold operation in which each operand is 0 or 1.

  • majority opinionnounCompound term

    The opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion').

  • majority rulenounCompound term

    The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.

  • absolute majoritynounCompound term

    More than half of the votes.

  • relative majoritynounCompound term

    The number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes).

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