Major (disambiguation)
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Major is a military rank. The word derives from the Latin maior (also spelled major), which means "greater".
Major or majors may also refer to:
Places
- Major, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Major, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
- Lake Major, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Mount Major, a small mountain in New Hampshire, United States
- Major, the Hungarian name for Maieru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
Music
- Various aspects of music composition:
- Major, a method of change ringing for eight church bells
- The Majors (band), an American R&B group
- Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group
People
- Major (surname)
- Major (given name)
- Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), American cyclist nicknamed "Major"
- Matt Sanchez (born 1970), American journalist and former porn star, known in the latter field by the stage name "Rod Majors"
Fictional characters
- Major Gowen, on the British television series Fawlty Towers
- Major Major Major Major, in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
- The Major (Hellsing), in the Japanese manga series Hellsing
- The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi from the Japanese anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell
- Old Major, from George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
Sports
Golf
A major is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments:
Tennis
The four Grand Slam events are also known as the majors:
Other sports
Other uses
- Major (academic), the primary field of study for a bachelor's degree in the United States and some other countries
- Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
- Major (manga), a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
- Major suit or major in contract bridge, namely hearts and spades
- Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year
- Morris Major, a car model produced by the British Motor Corporation of Australia between 1958 and 1964
- Morris Major (1931 to 1933), an automobile produced by Morris Motors in the United Kingdom
- Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school students have the same surname
- Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal
- Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco
See also
- Minor (disambiguation)
- Majorca, Spain
- Maior (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Major"
- All pages with titles containing Major
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