"double major" meaning in English

See double major in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: double majors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} double major (plural double majors)
  1. Two main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
    Sense id: en-double_major-en-noun-HXcjybBZ
  2. A student at a college or university concentrating on two given areas of study.
    Sense id: en-double_major-en-noun-wSjJ18Dx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: double-major [verb]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for double major meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "double majors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "double major (plural double majors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm working on a double major in biology and education so I can teach middle school science classes after I graduate.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Two main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university."
      ],
      "id": "en-double_major-en-noun-HXcjybBZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "student",
          "student"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "college",
          "college"
        ],
        [
          "university",
          "university"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A student at a college or university concentrating on two given areas of study."
      ],
      "id": "en-double_major-en-noun-wSjJ18Dx"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "double-major"
    }
  ],
  "word": "double major"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "double majors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "double major (plural double majors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm working on a double major in biology and education so I can teach middle school science classes after I graduate.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Two main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "student",
          "student"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "college",
          "college"
        ],
        [
          "university",
          "university"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A student at a college or university concentrating on two given areas of study."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "double-major"
    }
  ],
  "word": "double major"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.