Majority

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ancestors; ancestry.

II. Majority ·noun The military rank of a major.

III. Majority ·noun The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

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

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

VI. Majority ·noun 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.