major
Definitions
Noun
- A commissioned military officer in the united states army or air force or marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
- A university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
- The principal field of study of a student at a university
Adjective
- Of greater importance or stature or rank
- Greater in scope or effect
- Greater in number or size or amount
- Of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- Of a scale or mode
- Of greater seriousness or danger
- Of full legal age
Verb
- Have as one's principal field of study
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "major".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | major | 2 | 247 |
| 2 | majority | 4 | 57 |
| 3 | majorities | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | majors | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | majored | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | major's | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | majorca | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | majordomo | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | majoring | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | majoritarian | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | majority's | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | majoros | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | majors' | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | supermajority | 6 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "major".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "major" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | major source | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | major battle | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | major work | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | major plot | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | major step | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | major publisher | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | major changes | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | major highways | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | major public | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | major factor | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | major u | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | major setback | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | major international | 5 | 2 |
| 14 | major cities | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | major industrial | 4 | 2 |
| 16 | major studio | 3 | 2 |
| 17 | major british | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | major article | 3 | 2 |
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "major" in a sentence.
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "major" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | served | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | second | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | gas | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | acts | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | massacre | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | unlike | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | five | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | took | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | released | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | four | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | operates | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | without | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | one | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | include | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | duke's | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | address | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | japan | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | found | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | become | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | several | 3 | 2 |
| 22 | also | 2 | 2 |
| 23 | area | 3 | 2 |
| 24 | providing | 3 | 2 |
| 25 | recent | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | witnessed | 2 | 2 |
| 27 | faced | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | winter | 2 | 2 |
| 29 | invasion | 3 | 2 |
| 30 | learned | 1 | 2 |
| 31 | construction | 3 | 2 |
| 32 | another | 3 | 2 |
| 33 | first | 1 | 2 |
| 34 | liverpool | 3 | 2 |
| 35 | tourism | 3 | 2 |
| 36 | start | 1 | 2 |
| 37 | three | 1 | 2 |
| 38 | lack | 1 | 2 |
| 39 | way | 1 | 2 |
| 40 | exert | 2 | 2 |
| 41 | superstructure | 4 | 2 |
| 42 | virtually | 4 | 2 |
| 43 | became | 2 | 2 |
| 44 | two | 1 | 2 |
| 45 | em | 1 | 2 |
| 46 | kremlin | 2 | 2 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 12
Fragments: 14
Sound Alikes: 2
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 18
Words that Precede: 13
Statistically Associated: 46
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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