The Collaborative International Dictionary
Majority \Ma*jor"i*ty\, n.; pl. Majorities. [F. majorit['e]. See Major.]
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The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically:
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
[Cf. L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]
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The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
To go over to the majority or To join the majority, to die.
Usage examples of "to join the majority".
My first such occasion in New York since 1837, when quite another Park Theatre played to quite a different audience, now for the most part gone to join the majority.
And because they were an unfortunate reminder of how easy it was to join the majority of non-survivors.
Perhaps, thought Ericson, he went mad in the end, and started to swim away, and towed them all after him, shouting, until he lost his strength as well as his wits, and gave up, and turned back to join the majority.