英语词汇“majority”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	majority
释义	ma·jor·i·ty I. \məˈjȯrəd.ē, -jär-, -ətē, -i\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle French majorité, from Medieval Latin majoritat-, majoritas, from Latin major, adjective + -itat-, -itas -ity 1. obsolete : the quality or state of being greater : superiority < whose … great name in arms holds from all soldiers chief majority and military title capital — Shakespeare > 2. : the status of being of full legal age < graduated … before he had attained his majority — W.L.Burrage > 3. a. : a number greater than half of a total < the majority of the human race is still today on the sidelines, watching and wondering — A.J.Toynbee > — distinguished from plurality b. : the excess of such a greater number over the remainder of the total : edge, margin < resulted in giving him a majority of 98 out of a total of 504 votes cast — Joseph Schafer > c. : the preponderant quantity or share < the majority of the wool used in the United States is imported — F.J.Soday > 4. : all dead persons < the end comes: he joins the majority — W.H.Auden > 5. : the group or party whose votes preponderate 6. [probably from French majorité, from major (officer) + -ité -ity] : the military office, rank, or commission of a major < majorities and colonelcies were thick as June blackberries — Dixon Wecter > II. adjective : of, relating to, or constituting a majority < each committee is therefore composed of majority and minority members — F.A.Ogg & P.O.Ray >
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