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

People

• Major (given name)
• Major (surname)
• Matt Sanchez (born 1970), an American journalist and former porn star, known in the latter field by the stage name "Rod Majors"
• Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), an American cyclist nicknamed "Major"

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Major Gowen, on the British television series Fawlty Towers
• Major Major Major Major, in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
• Major Robert Morehouse, a character in the BBC America series Copper
• Old Major, from George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
• 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

Music

Groups

• The Majors (band), an American R&B group
• Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group

Various aspects of music composition

• Major chord
• Major interval
• Major key
• Major scale
• Major, a method of change ringing for eight church bells

Other uses

• Major (manga), a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
• Major suit or major in contract bridge, namely hearts and spades

Brands and enterprises

• Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco
• Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year
• Morris Major (1931 to 1933), an automobile produced by Morris Motors in the United Kingdom
• Morris Major, a car model produced by the British Motor Corporation of Australia between 1958 and 1964

Education

• Major (academic), the primary field of study for a bachelor's degree in the United States and some other countries
• Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school students have the same surname

Sports

Golf

• A major is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments:
  • Men's major golf championships
  • Women's major golf championships

Tennis

• The four Grand Slam events are also known as the majors:
  • Australian Open
  • French Open
  • The Championships, Wimbledon
  • US Open (tennis)

Other sports

• Major League Baseball
• Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada

Other uses

• Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
• Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal

See also

• Maior (disambiguation)
• Majorca, Spain
• Minor (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Major"
• All pages with a title containing Major