mayoría
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See also: mayoria
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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From mayor (“bigger, major”) + -ía.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /maʝoˈɾia/ [ma.ʝoˈɾi.a] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay, northern Mexico, Yucatán and Central America (except Panama))
- IPA(key): /maʃoˈɾia/ [ma.ʃoˈɾi.a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /maʒoˈɾia/ [ma.ʒoˈɾi.a] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /majoˈɾia/ [ma.joˈɾi.a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
Noun
[edit]mayoría f (plural mayorías)
- majority
- Antonym: minoría
- 2020 September 10, Alexis Benveniste, “El listado Fortune 500 ahora tiene un número récord de mujeres CEO: apenas 39”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- Fraser se une a otras 38 mujeres en la lista de CEOs de Fortune 500, conformada en su mayoría por blancos y hombres.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mayoría”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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