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- pronunciation:
- m
jaw
rih
ti
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m
jor
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ti
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
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majorities |
| definition 1: |
If a majority of people in a country live in cities, then most of them live in cities. If you win the majority of votes, you win more than half of all the votes, or you win more votes than anybody else. The majority of something is more than half of it, or the largest amount of that thing compared with other amounts of it.
The majority of people in our neighborhood live in apartments.The majority of cats have tails, but some types of cats don't.Five kids wanted to be class president, but Sofia won because she got the majority of votes.- antonyms:
- minority
- similar words:
- body, weight
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| definition 2: |
A majority is a particular group of people in a nation who represent the largest number of people within that nation.
The country of India has a Hindu majority. That means that, although some people in India are not believers in the Hindu religion, Hindus make up the largest part of the population of that country. |
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body |
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