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| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plurality, most |
| Synonyms: | best part, bulk, greater number, greater part, larger part, lion's share, mass, max, more, more than half, preponderance, superiority |
| Notes: | a majority is more than half the votes, while a plurality is simply getting more votes than the other person(s) |
| Antonyms: | minority, secondary |
| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood |
| Synonyms: | age of consent, estate, manhood, maturity, prime, seniority, drinking age, full age, legal maturity, prime of life, ripe age, voting age, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, minority, underage |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, herd, horde, host, infinity, jam*, legion, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, ocean*, oodles*, people, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, sea, swarm, throng, turnout, commonalty, great number, infinitude, loads, numbers, plenitude, scores, slew |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plurality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large part of a group |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bulk, lead, majority, mass, most, preponderance, profusion, variety, greater part, multiplicity, nearly all, numerousness |
| Antonyms: | minority |
| Main Entry: | vote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision or right to decide representation |
| Synonyms: | aye*, ballot, choice, franchise, majority, nay*, poll, referendum, suffrage, tally, ticket, will, wish, yea*, plebiscite, secret ballot, show of hands, yes or no |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legal age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | adultness, age of consent, drinking age, driving age, full age, full growth, legalis homo, majority, man's or woman's estate, maturation, mature age, matureness, voting age |
| Main Entry: | rank and file |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general public |
| Synonyms: | grass roots, majority, proletariat, common run, common soldiery, common sort, forces, plebeians, ranks |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, childhood, dotage, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear*, youth, adulthood, elderliness, girlhood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body of matter; considerable portion |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregate, assemblage, band, batch, block, bulk, bunch, chunk, clot, coagulation, collection, combination, concretion, conglomeration, core, corpus, crowd, entirety, gob, great deal, greater part, group, heap, horde, host, hunk, knot, lion's share, load, lot, lump, majority, mob, mound, mountain, much, number, object, peck, piece, pile, plurality, preponderance, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, staple, stockpile, sum, sum total, throng, totality, troop, volume, wad, whole |
| Main Entry: | bulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part, most |
| Synonyms: | best part, better part, biggest share, body, generality, greater number, greater part, gross, lion's share, major part, majority, mass, nearly all, plurality, predominant part, preponderance, principal part |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
| Synonyms: | assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, gist, groundwork, hull, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole, fuselage, gravamen, main part, substructure |
| Antonyms: | nothing, nothingness |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd |
| Synonyms: | array, batch, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, group, horde, lot, majority, mass, mob, multitude, parcel, party, set, society, throng |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
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