MAJOR
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major is worth 18 points in the game of Scrabble
Definitions for the word, major
(a.) A mayor.
(a.) A person of full age.
(a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
(a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
(a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
(a.) Of full legal age.
(a.) Of greater dignity; more important.
(a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].