MAJOR POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does major power mean? 

• MAJOR POWER (noun)
  The noun MAJOR POWER has 1 sense:

1. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

  Familiarity information: MAJOR POWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAJOR POWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

great power; major power; power; superpower; world power

Hypernyms ("major power" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major power"):

hegemon (a leading or paramount power)