MAJOR

Major

Major is a sports manga series by Takuya Mitsuda. It has been serialized in Shōnen Sunday and has been collected in 78 tankōbon volumes. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.

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major

Noun

, or, when used as a title before a person's name, Major

  1. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel
    He used to be a major in the army.
    This is Major Jones.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
    Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.
  2. A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.
    She is a math major.
  3. A person of legal age.
  4. The major premise.
  5. An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".

Verb

  1. to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university
    I have decided to major in mathematics.

Adjective

  1. Of great significance or importance.
  2. Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
    the major part of the assembly
  3. Of full legal age; having attained majority.
  4. Of a scale which follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone
    a major scale.
  5. Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
  6. Containing the note which is a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.


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