major
US: /ˈmeɪdʒɝ/
UK: /mˈeɪdʒɐ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
major /'meidʤə/- danh từ
- (quân sự) thiếu tá (lục quân)
- (quân sự) thiếu tá (lục quân)
- danh từ
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) con trai đến tuổi thành niên (21 tuổi)
- chuyên đề (của một sinh viên)
- người có địa vị cao hơn (trong một lĩnh vực nào đó)
- tính từ
- lớn (hơn), nhiều (hơn), trọng đại, chủ yếu
- for the major part: phần lớn, phần nhiều
- anh, lớn (dùng trong trường hợp có hai anh em cùng trường)
- Smith major: Xmít anh, Xmít lớn
- (âm nhạc) trưởng
- đến tuổi trưởng thành
- (thuộc) chuyên đề (của một sinh viên)
- lớn (hơn), nhiều (hơn), trọng đại, chủ yếu
- nội động từ
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) chuyên về (một môn gì), chọn chuyên đề, đỗ cao (về một môn học)
- to major in history: chuyên về môn sử; chọn chuyên đề về sử; đỗ cao về sử
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) chuyên về (một môn gì), chọn chuyên đề, đỗ cao (về một môn học)
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun, verb+ adjective
1 [usually before noun] very large or important: a major road + major international companies + to play a major role in sth + We have encountered major problems. + There were calls for major changes to the welfare system.
Antonym: MINOR
2 [not before noun] (AmE, spoken) serious: Never mind-it's not major.
3 (music) based on a SCALE (= a series of eight notes) in which the third note is two whole TONES/STEPS higher than the first note: the key of D major
Compare: MINOR
4 (AmE) related to sb's main subject of study in college
+ noun
1 [C] (abbreviation Maj.) an officer of fairly high rank in the army or the US air force: Major Smith + He's a major in the US army.
See also -
2 [C] (AmE) the main subject or course of a student at college or university: Her major is French.
Compare: MINOR
3 [C] (AmE) a student studying a particular subject as the main part of their course: She's a French major.
4 [U] (music) a major key or scale: to change from major to minor
5 (the majors) [pl.] (AmE, sport) the MAJOR LEAGUES
verb
Phrasal Verbs: major in sth (AmE) to study sth as your main subject at a university or college: She majored in History at Stanford.
major on sth (BrE) to pay particular attention to one subject, issue, etc.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 larger, greater, bigger, main, chief, important:
Henderson grabbed the major portion of the credit.
2 vital, important, critical, crucial, principal, foremost, paramount, primary, prime, main, big, biggest, pre-eminent, notable, noteworthy, significant, outstanding, dominant, dominating; serious, grave, worst:
The major problem in commercial kitchens is sanitation.
Collocation
RANK:
in the armed forces air force, army, navy ~
an air force/army sergeant an army/navy captain
air/field
marshal a
naval
captain/commander/lieutenant/officer
have/hold the rank of, serve as ~
She joined the navy and held the rank of captain. He served as a lieutenant in the marine corps.
be appointed, become, be made ~
He was made a colonel at the age of 40. She ought to have been made sergeant by now.
under ~
383 men under General Miles attacked the camp.
the rank of ~
She was promoted to the rank of colonel.
Concise dictionary
majors|majored|majoring'meɪdʒə(r)noun
+a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
+British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
+a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
+the principal field of study of a student at a university
verb
+have as one's principal field of study
adj.
+of greater importance or stature or rank
+greater in scope or effect
+greater in number or size or amount
+of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
+of a scale or mode
+of greater seriousness or danger
+of full legal age
+of the elder of two boys with the same family name
