majority
majority is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- 2.Etym: [Cf. L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]
- 3.The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality. To go over to, or To join, the majority, to die.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- adolescent
- adult
- adultness
- age
- alone
- alter
- among
- assume
- attain
- centesimal
- certain
- chicken
- come
- cut
- decimal
- decimate
- decimation
- deficit
- discretion
- division
- duodecimal
- estate
- few
- fifth
- five
- flower
- full
- grown
- have
- hundredth
- inter
- large
- life
- man
- manhood
- manly
- marriageable
- matronly
- mature
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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