major
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈmeɪdʒər/
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especialidad
- I'm a chemistry major.
- STEM major
- a college major
- choose a major
Pfizer was an English major at Tufts.
- Pfizer was an English major at Tufts.
- So if you are an engineering major, respect.
- I think she changed her major because of that class.
- I, I experiment with being a music major briefly.
- Johnson is read by English majors like me.
- Wilgi asks, what major are you doing at college?
- That's why English majors have such a hard time with law school.
- The fewer there are in your major, the more that proves your purity, right?
- But frankly, no major really helps you that much in law school.
- You should sign up for the major that you are most interested in.
- No, She was a painting major at college and she's good at Photoshop.
- And there's a scientist, there's a psychology major, literature people.
Examples
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This course is very much open to English majors and to non-english majors.
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I think there was one CJ major maybe.
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I think she changed her major because of that class.
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So I was the only like art major who hadn't done it yet.
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This is an Ivy League student who says I'm a math major and it's really hard.
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Did you know that Junior's major is musical theater?
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She'll be an entrepreneurship major, so love it.
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I'm a psych major, so I know all about people like you.
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Margie was a sculpture major at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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She decided to major in psychology because she enjoys studying human behavior.
Synonyms
305
1.6
An area of knowledge studied at school or university
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3.0
A set of classes in a subject that lead to a qualification or degree
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9.0
A student's main subject of study at university
Compounds
- Specialized
12
4.0
A serious operation on the body that doctors do while you are asleep and that has more risk
- Specialized
1
3.7
A set of seven notes with whole steps except half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth
- Specialized
1
6.8
A senior soldier who helps run a group of soldiers and manages discipline and administration
- Specialized
1
6.1
A period of severe sadness and loss of interest that makes daily life hard
- Specialized
1
7.4
A general statement that includes the main word in the conclusion, for example 'All humans are mortal'
- Specialized
1
9.2
A severe, common form of smallpox that often caused fever, many skin sores, and many deaths
- Archaic
An intense seizure when a person loses consciousness and their whole body shakes strongly
- Specialized
A garden plant with star-shaped white or pink flowers and leaves in a low clump
- Specialized
A serious mental illness that causes very low or very high mood
- Specialized
The longest straight line through an ellipse that passes through its two special inner points
- Specialized
A common eight-note pattern in Western music with small steps between third and fourth and seventh and eighth
- Specialized
A main group of words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives that show a word's role in a sentence
- Archaic
Strong medicine that calms people with serious mental illness like schizophrenia
- Specialized
A large chest muscle that pulls the arm toward the body and turns it inward
- Specialized
A back muscle that pulls the shoulder blade toward the spine
- Specialized
A muscle in the upper arm that pulls the arm back and turns it inward toward the body
- Specialized
A muscle in the upper back that pulls the shoulder blade toward the spine
- Specialized
A large chest muscle that helps move the arm toward the body and turn it
- Specialized
A thick round muscle in the upper back that turns the arm toward the body
- Specialized
A muscle in the upper back that moves the arm and turns it inward
- Specialized
A severe inherited blood disease that causes very low red blood cells and needs regular transfusions
- Specialized
A trailing evergreen plant with shiny green and white leaves and blue or purple flowers
- Formal
A strong natural event like an earthquake or flood that you cannot stop and that stops normal life
How Central
Surface Forms
Etymology
Major comes from an old Latin word maior meaning 'greater' or 'older', and it was used for the subject that is 'greater' in a student's studies. So your major at university is the main subject you study most.