Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. 2. (n.) The military rank of a major. 3. (n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs. 4. (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. 5. (n.) Ancestors; ancestry. 6. (n.) 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Majority (5 Occurrences) Matthew 24:12 and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold; (WEY) Acts 19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together. (See NAS) Acts 27:12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast. (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV) 2 Corinthians 2:6 In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted by the majority of you is enough. (WEY NAS RSV NIV) 1 Chronicles 12:29 Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. (See RSV)