The Collaborative International Dictionary
major power \major power\ n. A nation powerful enough to influence events throughout the world.
Syn: world power, great power, power.
WordNet
n. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power, great power, power, superpower]
Usage examples of "major power".
Kilmer waited for the expected five minutes, because you didn't just barge in to see a senior government minister of a major power, but then the high doors&mdash.
As Earth Prime, Jeffs voice interrupted their conversation, / reluctantly report that there seems to have been a major power failure at Clarf Main Hibernatory.
He's a major power in this part of the galaxy and no one, not even the Lord Admiral, will want to offend him.
Fellow Terranians, our world knows no more dangerous enemy than this robot brain, which will permit no other major power to exist in its vicinity.
He'd believed the sales hype of the wrong major power, and his tanks simply couldn't stand against the tanks made by the other major powers.
Kilmer waited for the expected five minutes, because you didn't just barge in to see a senior government minister of a major power, but then the high doors—.
Kilmer waited for the expected five minutes, because you didn't just barge in to see a senior government minister of a major power, but then the high doors -- they were always double doors at this level of diplomacy -- opened and he was beckoned in.
So imagine what it must be like to go against a really major power.
And I'll say this - if I had to pick any existing government of any major power to trust with this for a year or two or five, I'd pick this one.
Cartography may be the great force behind our expansion, but you, and you alone, are the major power insofar as utilizing what we already possess.