Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of major.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word majoring.

Examples

  • We have 163 students majoring is Business Administration and Computer Science.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • As a young man, McCallister toyed with the idea of majoring in music in college and sang folk music in the early 1960s before being drafted to the U.S. military.

    GJSentinel.com 2010

  • I loved history so much that at one point I flirted with the idea of majoring in history in college (but called it off because the rational voice in my head was nagging me against it).

    MIT Admissions 2008

  • Peterson attended Duke University in the early 1960s, majoring in political science and editing the student newspaper.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Please, pull your heads out of your tail ends and create an individual thought, because that is what true liberty entails. (for future response to those who will cloak behind your answer that I am probably just another 'lazy, dope smoking' liberal, I work full-time and am majoring in bioengineering, not an elitist, just an idealist)

    Obama: Economy 'in a much better place' 2010

  • It's time that our leaders stop majoring in the minors, start leading and get this country back on track ...

    House committee votes to subpoena White House party crashers 2009

  • Megan Tucker-Hall is a junior at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where she is majoring in Psychology.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • Raised in Maryland, he earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, majoring in government and politics.

    Tea Party backer brings conservative message to black voters 2011

  • "It was really complicated, with lots of little things you have to know," says Ms. Baral, a freshman majoring in biology.

    The College-Aid Shuffle Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2012

  • Please, pull your heads out of your tail ends and create an individual thought, because that is what true liberty entails. (for future response to those who will cloak behind your answer that I am probably just another 'lazy, dope smoking' liberal, I work full-time and am majoring in bioengineering, not an elitist, just an idealist)

    Obama calls for review of oil rig incident 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.