majority

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/
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• US: /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/
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• US: /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪti/
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• rhymes with -ɒɹɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 JH AO1 R AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin maiōritātem, accusative of Latin maiōritās, from Latin maior (“greater”). Morphologically major + -ity.

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shumicë — more than half
• Albanian: mazhorancë — more than half
• Arabic: غَالِبِيَّة (ḡālibiyya) — more than half
• Arabic: أَغْلَبِيّة (ʔaḡlabiyya) — more than half
• Arabic: أَكْثَرِيَّة (ʔakṯariyya) — more than half
• Arabic: مُعْظَم (muʕẓam) — more than half
• Armenian: մեծամասնություն (mecamasnutʻyun) — more than half
• Azerbaijani: əksəriyyət — more than half
• Azerbaijani: çoxluq — more than half
• Bashkir: күпселек (küpselek) — more than half
• Belarusian: бо́льшасць (bólʹšascʹ) — more than half
• Bulgarian: мнозинство́ (mnozinstvó) — more than half
• Bulgarian: болшинство́ (bolšinstvó) — more than half
• Burmese: အများစု (a.mya:cu.) — more than half
• Catalan: majoria — more than half
• Chinese Mandarin: 多數 /多数 (duōshù) — more than half
• Czech: většina — more than half
• Danish: flertal — more than half
• Dutch: meerderheid — more than half
• Dutch: merendeel — more than half
• Esperanto: plimulto — more than half
• Esperanto: plejparto — more than half
• Estonian: enamus — more than half
• Finnish: enemmistö — more than half
• Finnish: yksinkertainen enemmistö — more than half
• French: majorité — more than half
• Galician: maioría — more than half
• Georgian: უმრავლესობა (umravlesoba) — more than half
• German: Mehrheit — more than half
• German: Majorität — more than half
• Greek: πλειονότητα (pleionótita) — more than half
• Greek: πλειοψηφία (pleiopsifía) — more than half
• Hindi: अधिकांश (adhikāñś) — more than half
• Hungarian: többség — more than half
• Ido: majoritato — more than half
• Indonesian: mayoritas — more than half
• Italian: maggioranza — more than half
• Japanese: 多数 (tasū) — more than half
• Kazakh: көпшілік (köpşılık) — more than half
• Korean: 다수 (dasu) — more than half
• Korean: 과반수 (gwabansu) — more than half
• Kyrgyz: көпчүлүк (köpcülük) — more than half
• Latin: majōritās — more than half
• Latin: plēritās — more than half
• Latvian: vairākums — more than half
• Lithuanian: dauguma — more than half
• Macedonian: мнозинство (mnozinstvo) — more than half
• Malay: majoriti — more than half
• Malayalam: ഭൂരിപക്ഷം (bhūripakṣaṁ) — more than half
• Maltese: maġġoranza — more than half
• Māori: nuinga — more than half
• Navajo: agháago áníidlą́ą́ʼ — more than half
• Norman: mâjorité — more than half
• Norwegian Bokmål: majoritet — more than half
• Norwegian Bokmål: flertall — more than half
• Norwegian Nynorsk: majoritet — more than half
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fleirtal — more than half
• Occitan: majoritat — more than half
• Pannonian Rusyn: векшина (vekšina) — more than half
• Persian: اکثریت (aksariyat) — more than half
• Persian: اکثریت ساده (aksariyat-e sâde) — more than half
• Polish: większość — more than half
• Portuguese: maioria — more than half
• Romanian: majoritate — more than half
• Russian: большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó) — more than half
• Scottish Gaelic: mòr-chuid — more than half
• Serbo-Croatian: већина — more than half
• Serbo-Croatian: većina — more than half
• Slovak: väčšina — more than half
• Slovene: večina — more than half
• Spanish: mayoría — more than half
• Swedish: majoritet — more than half
• Tajik: аксарият (aksariyat) — more than half
• Turkish: çoğunluk — more than half
• Turkish: ekseriyet — more than half
• Turkmen: köplük — more than half
• Turkmen: köpçülik — more than half
• Ukrainian: бі́льшість (bílʹšistʹ) — more than half
• Urdu: اَکْثَرِیَّت (aksariyyat) — more than half
• Uzbek: aksariyat — more than half
• Vietnamese: đa số — more than half
• Vietnamese: phần đông — more than half
• Vietnamese: số đông — more than half
• Welsh: mwyafrif — more than half
• Yiddish: מערהייט (merheyt) — more than half
• Azerbaijani: çoxluq, əksəriyyət — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Bulgarian: мнозинство́ (mnozinstvó) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Burmese: လူများစု (lu-mya:cu.) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Catalan: majoria — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Chinese Mandarin: 公決 /公决 (gōngjué) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Finnish: enemmistö — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Galician: maioría — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Greek: πλειοψηφία (pleiopsifía) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Hungarian: többség — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Irish: tromlach — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Korean: 득표차 (deukpyocha) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Macedonian: мнозинство (mnozinstvo) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Norwegian: majoritet — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Norwegian: seiersmargin — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Portuguese: maioria — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Russian: перевес (pereves) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Scottish Gaelic: mòr-chuid — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Urdu: اَکْثَرِیَّت (aksariyyat) — difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Bengali: সাবালকতা (śabalkota) — legal adulthood
• Bengali: সাবালকত্ব (śabalokotto) — legal adulthood
• Bulgarian: пълноле́тие (pǎlnolétie) — legal adulthood
• Catalan: majoria d'edat — legal adulthood
• Danish: myndighedsalder — legal adulthood
• Finnish: täysi-ikäisyys — legal adulthood
• French: majorité — legal adulthood
• German: Erwachsenenalter — legal adulthood
• Greek: ενηλικιότητα (enilikiótita) — legal adulthood
• Hindi: बालिग़पन (bāliġpan) — legal adulthood
• Hindi: वयस्कता (vayaskatā) — legal adulthood
• Hungarian: nagykorúság — legal adulthood
• Italian: maggiore età — legal adulthood
• Macedonian: полноле́тство (polnolétstvo) — legal adulthood
• Macedonian: полноле́тност (polnolétnost) — legal adulthood
• Norman: mâjorité — legal adulthood
• Norwegian: myndighetsalder — legal adulthood
• Portuguese: maioridade — legal adulthood
• Romanian: majorat — legal adulthood
• Scottish Gaelic: làn-aois — legal adulthood
• Spanish: mayoría de edad — legal adulthood
• Thai: นิติภาวะ (ní-dtì-paa-wá) — legal adulthood