MAJORITY

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically:

2.
n.

The military rank of a major.

3.
n.

The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

4.
n.

The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

5.
n.

Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]

6.
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. To go over to, or To join, the majority, to die.

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