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- Majority - n. - The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
- Majority - n. - The military rank of a major.
- Majority - n. - The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
- Majority - n. - The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- Majority - n. - Ancestors; ancestry.
- Majority - n. - 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.
- Majority - n. - 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.
- Psephism - n. - A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.
- Paulist - n. - A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.
- Majority - n. - The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- Commonalty - n. - The majority or bulk of mankind.
- Many - a. - The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.