majority

🇬🇧/məˈdʒɒrəti/ 🇺🇸/məˈdʒɔːrəti/📚 1089 56 4四级六级考研托福雅思高考

The majority of people or things in a group is more than half of them. ^多数

Majority is the state of legally being an adult. In most states in the United States, people reach their majority at the age of eighteen.
成年

Majority is used to describe opinions, decisions, and systems of government that are supported by more than half the people involved.
多数人支持的

majority 出现在下面的课文中: Lesson 10 Silicon valley; Lesson 28 Patients and doctors; Lesson 46 Hobbies

单词造句:

反义词minority/maɪˈnɒrəti/n. 少数民族；少数派；未成年

源自major/ˈmeɪdʒə(r)/adj. 主要的；主修的；重要的；较多的

关联词proportion/prəˈpɔːʃ(ə)n/n. 比例；部分；均衡；面积

词组	含义	例句
a / the majority of	…的大多数	The majority of the population is Protestant. ^{这里的人大多数都信奉新教。}