to major
- verb
- /ˈmeɪdʒər/
- I'm gonna major in English Lit.
I at the time I was double majoring and I had a professor.
- I at the time I was double majoring and I had a professor.
- I have not seen a complete four year program that majors in fashion forecasting.
- And so, hey, we'll go to UNC Asheville, I'll play basketball, will major in film and then we'll become film makers.
- My education blended Islamic and Western traditions in my early years and at Harvard, where I majored in Islamic history.
- And then when I went to college, they allowed me to major in theatre as long as I went to a school that had other things.
Examples
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What did you major in at Yale?
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I think I'm gonna major in architecture.
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So what are you gonna major in?
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What did you major in?
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"What should I major in?"
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And I, I would say, yes, you, you should major in philosophy.
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All students planning on becoming teachers in Massachusetts must major in an academic subject.
Academic text (2006) -
Now, I know not all of you are going to end up majoring in psychology.
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So, Becky, have you thought about what you'll major in at college?
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In college, I decided to major in biology because I love science.
Compounds
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A serious operation on the body that doctors do while you are asleep and that has more risk
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A set of seven notes with whole steps except half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth
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A senior soldier who helps run a group of soldiers and manages discipline and administration
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A period of severe sadness and loss of interest that makes daily life hard
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A general statement that includes the main word in the conclusion, for example 'All humans are mortal'
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A severe, common form of smallpox that often caused fever, many skin sores, and many deaths
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An intense seizure when a person loses consciousness and their whole body shakes strongly
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A garden plant with star-shaped white or pink flowers and leaves in a low clump
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A serious mental illness that causes very low or very high mood
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The longest straight line through an ellipse that passes through its two special inner points
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A common eight-note pattern in Western music with small steps between third and fourth and seventh and eighth
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A main group of words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives that show a word's role in a sentence
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Strong medicine that calms people with serious mental illness like schizophrenia
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A large chest muscle that pulls the arm toward the body and turns it inward
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A back muscle that pulls the shoulder blade toward the spine
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A muscle in the upper arm that pulls the arm back and turns it inward toward the body
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A muscle in the upper back that pulls the shoulder blade toward the spine
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A large chest muscle that helps move the arm toward the body and turn it
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A thick round muscle in the upper back that turns the arm toward the body
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A muscle in the upper back that moves the arm and turns it inward
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A severe inherited blood disease that causes very low red blood cells and needs regular transfusions
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A trailing evergreen plant with shiny green and white leaves and blue or purple flowers
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A strong natural event like an earthquake or flood that you cannot stop and that stops normal life
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Etymology
Major as a verb comes from the same root maior meaning 'greater' and it simply means to make a subject your main or 'greater' field of study. So to major in biology is to study biology as your main subject.