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Outranks the captain, salutes the colonel, and somehow runs the entire show anyway.
means Greater in size, importance, or rank — or, as a noun, a mid-level military officer above captain, the main subject of a student's study, or a musical scale with a bright, settled sound.
from Straight from Latin maior, the comparative of magnus, "great" — literally "greater." The same root branches everywhere: mayor (the town's "greater" official), majesty, majority, and the Spanish mayor. English took the comparative meaning into rank and importance, and the military sense arrived via the older title sergeant-major, where "major" marked the higher of the pair before splitting off on its own.
- music theory
- Major keys sound happy; minor ones brood instead
- latin root
- From maior, meaning simply greater or larger
- city rank
- Some places elect a mayor, from the same root
- college choice
- One word decides decades of dinner-party small talk
- sergeant major
- The rare title where major plays second fiddle
major league baseball — professional baseball league in north america with 30 teams since 1869
major arcana — 22 cards in tarot decks that represent life's spiritual lessons
ursa major — constellation containing the big dipper asterism, visible in northern hemisphere
major depressive disorder — clinical diagnosis affecting ~280 million people globally per who