majority

Meaning

Noun

• More than half (50%) of some group.
• The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
• Legal adulthood, age of majority.
• The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
• Ancestors; ancestry.

Related

Opposite words

• minority

Narrower meaning words

• absolute majority
• double majority
• qualified majority
• silent majority
• simple majority
• supermajority

Origin

• From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin māiōritātem, accusative of Latin māiōritās, from Latin māiōr.
• Morphologically major + -ity