Noun: major
| Singular | major |
| Plural | majors |
Sample Sentences
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He used to be a major in the army.
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At the end of last year, the band re-signed to XL for another three albums, despite being chased by majors that included Island, says manager Mike Champion of Midi Management. [1997, Dominic Pride, “U.S. success caps global impact of XL's prodigy”, in Billboard, volume 109, number 30, page 86:]
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Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.
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She is a math major.
Nouns inflected like major
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
4. Proto-Indo-European *méǵyōs
5. Proto-Italic *majjōs
6. Latin maiorder.
7. Middle English major
8. English major
9. From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs (“greater”), comparative of *meǵh₂- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”), French majeur. Doublet of mayor.
10. Noun sense 1 is a shortening of sergeant major, perhaps after Spanish mayor in the same sense. See: Latin Nouns '
maior', Dutch Nouns '
majoor', French Nouns '
majeur', Spanish Nouns '
mayor'.