major
- adjective
- /ˈmeɪdʒər/
- Are you going to major in English?
- major field of study
- major field
- major courses
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeSo in your major courses, you should see some CLA performance tasks.
- So in your major courses, you should see some CLA performance tasks.
Examples
-
A&M was one of the few major universities that offered him a scholarship.
Fiction book (2002) -
I wanna major in civil law.
-
I understand the material in my major classes at least as well as most other students.
Academic text (2015) -
I thought she wanted to change her major and study drama or art.
Fiction book (1999) -
So in your major courses, you should see some CLA performance tasks.
-
Although interested in history, I chose to major in Bible, then I switched to sociology.
Academic text (1992) -
I major in history.
-
You're gonna major in journalism or law, not... not rowing.
-
I decided to major in environmental science because I want to help protect the planet.
-
Students at the university can major in a variety of subjects, including psychology and engineering.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A serious operation on the body that doctors do while you are asleep and that has more risk
- Specialized
A senior soldier who helps run a group of soldiers and manages discipline and administration
- Specialized
A general statement that includes the main word in the conclusion, for example 'All humans are mortal'
- Specialized
A set of seven notes with whole steps except half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth
- Specialized
A period of severe sadness and loss of interest that makes daily life hard
- Specialized
A large chest muscle that helps move the arm toward the body and turn it
- Specialized
The longest straight line through an ellipse that passes through its two special inner points
- Specialized
A severe, common form of smallpox that often caused fever, many skin sores, and many deaths
- Specialized
A thick round muscle in the upper back that turns the arm toward the body
- Archaic
Strong medicine that calms people with serious mental illness like schizophrenia
- Specialized
A severe inherited blood disease that causes very low red blood cells and needs regular transfusions
- Specialized
A muscle in the upper back that moves the arm and turns it inward
- Specialized
A serious mental illness that causes very low or very high mood
- Specialized
A trailing evergreen plant with shiny green and white leaves and blue or purple flowers
- Specialized
A garden plant with star-shaped white or pink flowers and leaves in a low clump
- Archaic
An intense seizure when a person loses consciousness and their whole body shakes strongly
- 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
- 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
- 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 the Latin word maior meaning 'greater', so as an adjective it describes the 'main' or most important subject at university. That's why we call someone's principal field their major.