| 单词 | major |
| 释义 | Word Frequency major(ˈmeɪdʒə) noun 1. military an officer immediately junior to a lieutenant colonel 2. a person who is superior in a group or class 3. a large or important company the oil majors 4. (often preceded by the) music a major key, chord, mode, or scale 5. US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand a. the principal field of study of a student at a university, etc his major is sociology b. a student who is studying a particular subject as his or her principal field a sociology major 6. a person who has reached the age of legal majority 7. logic a major term or premise 8. a principal or important record company, film company, etc 9. the majors adjective 10. larger in extent, number, etc the major part 11. of greater importance or priority 12. very serious or significant a major disaster 13. main, chief, or principal 14. of, involving, or making up a majority 15. music a. (of a scale or mode) having notes separated by the interval of a whole tone, except for the third and fourth degrees, and seventh and eighth degrees, which are separated by a semitone b. relating to or employing notes from the major scale a major key c. (postpositive) denoting a specified key or scale as being major C major d. denoting a chord or triad having a major third above the root e. (in jazz) denoting a major chord with a major seventh added above the root 16. logic constituting the major term or major premise of a syllogism 17. mainly US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand of or relating to a student's principal field of study at a university, etc 18. archaic, British the elder: used after a schoolboy's surname if he has one or more younger brothers in the same school Price major 19. of full legal age 20. (postpositive) bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a method rung on eight bells verb 21. (intransitive; usually foll by in) US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand to do one's principal study (in a particular subject) to major in English literature 22. (intransitive; usually foll by on) to take or deal with as the main area of interest the book majors on the peasant dishes Derived forms majorship (ˈmajorship) noun Word origin C15 (adj): from Latin, comparative of magnus great; C17 (n, in military sense): from French, short for sergeant majorWord Frequency Major(ˈmeɪdʒə) noun Sir John. born 1943, British Conservative politician: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1989–90); prime minister (1990–97) |
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