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major adjective big, chief, comprehensive, considerable, crucial, decisive, distinguished, enormous, essential, extensive, extraordinary, far-reaching, fateful, goodly, grave, great, high-level, important, impressive, intense, key, large, leading, massive, matchless, material, memorable, meritorious, moderately large, momentous, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, ponderous, pressing, prime, principal, remarkable, serious, significant, sizable, sober, solemn, substantial, supreme, top, top-level, tremendous, unparalleled, vital, weighty, worthy of consideration, worthy of remark
See also: cardinal, central, critical, crucial, essential, important, indispensable, key, material, momentous, outstanding

MAJOR, persons. One who has attained his full age, and has acquired all his civil rights; one who is no longer a minor; an adult.

MAJOR. Military language. The lowest of the staff officers; a degree higher than captain.



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What started to change my mind was that, during my first year at the Academy, my company officer was a tough but fair Marine major, John Riley.
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Writers such as Clarence Major, John Edgar Wideman, and Ishmael Reed are different from Johnson (and from each other) in many ways, but, in important ways, they also manifest Johnson's concern with written textuality.
Charles Johnson's quest for black freedom in 'Oxherding Tale.' by Coleman, James W. / African American Review
In Rites of Passage: Stories about Growing Up by Black Writers from around the World (Hyperion) Tonya Bolden introduces young readers to some writers who will be familiar to readers of African-American adult literature, such as Toni Cade Bambara, Clarence Major, John Henrik Clarke, and J.
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