Word Meanings - DUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.

Related words: (words related to DUR)

• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MAJORSHIP
  The office of major.
• MAJORATION
  Increase; enlargement. Bacon.
• MAJORCAN
  Of or pertaining to Majorca. -- n.
• MAJOR
  Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. Major axis , the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. -- Major key , a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
• MAJORAT
  Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it. (more info) 1. The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
• MAJOR-DOMO
  A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
• MAJORITY
  Ancestors; ancestry. 4. 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,
• MAJORATE
  The office or rank of a major.
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• VIS MAJOR
  A superior force which under certain circumstances is held to exempt from contract obligations; inevitable accident; -- a civil-law term used as nearly equivalent to, but broader than, the common-law term act of God .
• DRUM MAJOR
  . 1. The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers. 2. The marching leader of a military band. 3. A noisy gathering. See under Drum, n.,
• TIERCE-MAJOR
  See 4
• ETAT MAJOR
  The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned