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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | plurality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large part of a group |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bulk, greater part, lead, majority, mass, most, multiplicity, nearly all, numerousness, preponderance, profusion, variety |
| Notes: | a majority is more than half the votes, while a plurality is simply getting more votes than the other person(s) |
| Antonyms: | minority |
| Main Entry: | preponderance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great numbers; supremacy |
| Synonyms: | advantage, ascendancy, bigger half, bulk, command, dominance, domination, dominion, extensiveness, greater part, lion's share, mass, max, mostest, power, predominance, prevalence, superiority, sway, weight |
| Antonyms: | inferiority |
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| Concept: | Plurality. |
| Category: | 2. DETERMINATE NUMBER |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
plurality; a number, a certain number; one or two, two or three; a few, several; multitude; majority.
-adjectives
plural, more than one, upwards of, some, certain; not alone.
-adverbs
et cetera, etc.
-phrases
non deficit alter.
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| Antonyms: | unity |
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