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# majority

«majority» in Mova's school dictionary: **The bigger part of a group; more than half** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a majority, majorities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The bigger part of a group; more than half. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#m1)

2) The number of votes by which a winner beats others (won by a majority of ten). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#m2)

3) (formal, law) The age when you are legally an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons: majority means more than half, so in a class of 30, a majority is at least 16. In voting (class elections): the majority wins. Phrases: the majority of, a large majority, in the majority, majority vote.

### examples

- The majority of pupils walk to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x1)
- The majority voted for a trip to the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x2)
- She won by a majority of five votes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x3)
- In our class, girls are in the majority. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x4)
- The vast majority of people were kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x5)
- A majority of 30 people means at least 16 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x6)
- Most probably some such thoughts as these discouraged the majority from going out into the world to collect the required information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/#x7)

### note

Countable. "The majority of + plural noun" usually takes a plural verb: "The majority of children like ice cream." For numbers: majority means MORE than half; exactly half is not a majority. Opposite: minority. Trap: "most" and "majority" are similar, but "majority" is for countable groups (the majority of people), not for amounts (not "the majority of the cake").

### In the corpora

- [In a democracy decisions are often made by voting, and the side with more votes, the majority, wins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/9/)
- [Majority rule must still protect the rights of the minority; the majority is not always right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «majority» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/majority/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.