Majorとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: mā'jər, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
• ハイフネーション: ma‧jor
• 韻: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)

語源 1

From French major.

別の表記

• Maj. (titular abbreviation)
• maj. (nominal abbreviation)

名詞

major (複数形 majors)

1. (military) A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.

   He used to be a major in the army.

使用する際の注意点

• When used as a title, it is always capitalized.
• In the US, the rank corresponds to pay grade O-4. Abbreviations: Maj. and MAJ.

関連する語

• majority
• sergeant-major

語源 2

From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great”), from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ-yes- (“greater”), comparative of *maǵ-, *meǵ- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”). Doublet of mayor.

形容詞

major (comparative more major, superlative most major)

1. Of great significance or importance.
   • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:

     The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

2. Greater in number, quantity, or extent

   the major part of the assembly

3. Of full legal age, having attained majority
4. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone

   A major scale.

5. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
6. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.

反意語

• minor

派生語

• majorly

関連する語

• mage

名詞

major (複数形 majors)

1. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.

   Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.

2. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.

   She is a math major.

3. A person of legal age.
4. (logic) The major premise.
5. (カナダ用法 football) A touchdown, or major score.
6. A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
   • 1997, Billboard (volume 109, number 30, page 86)

     At the end of last year, the band re-signed to XL for another three albums, despite being chased by majors that included Island, says manager Mike Champion of Midi Management.

7. (英国用法 スラング, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
8. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

反意語

• (a person of legal age): minor

動詞

major (三人称単数 現在形 majors, 現在分詞 majoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 majored)

1. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university

   I have decided to major in mathematics.

アナグラム

• joram

Latin

形容詞

major (neuter majus, positive māgnus); third declension

1. Alternative form of maior

語形変化

Third-declension comparative adjective.

参照

• major in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• major in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)