majority - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'majority' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Majority

[ n.]

- The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
- The military rank of a major.
- The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
- The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- Ancestors; ancestry.
- 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.

Meaning of 'majority' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . majority

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part

Example in sentence:

the bulk of the work is finished;
the majority of his customers prefer it

Nearby Words:

majestatal majestatic majestic majestical majesticness majesties majesty majolica major major general

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Late majority
Late majority is the consumers comprising the next 34% to adopt new products, after innovators, early adapters, and early majority.

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