major

Pronunciation: ['meidʒә]

Average Rank: 1775

Source: ECDICT

n. 主修课, 成年人, 陆军少校 a. 主要的, 较多的, 大部分的, 成年的, 严重的 vi. 主修 [计] 主要, 主要刻度

n. a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
n. British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
n. a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
n. the principal field of study of a student at a university

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Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts

Plural: majors

Present Participle: majoring

Past: majored

3rd Person: majors

Past Participle: majored

Word Frequency Rankings

#182

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.2% (Top 98.2% most frequent)

98.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#1034

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 89.7% (Top 89.7% most frequent)

89.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#4108

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 58.9% (Top 58.9% most frequent)

58.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.