(elections) more than half of the votes
"In the recent local election, the candidate won because they secured a majority of the votes in every precinct."
More than half (50%) of some group.
"The majority of voters in our neighborhood plan to attend the block party on Saturday."
In plain English: The majority is the largest group of people or things in a situation, meaning more than half.
"The majority of students passed the exam."
Usage: Use "majority" to describe more than half of a specific group or total number. It refers to the larger portion remaining after a split, such as fifty-one percent in a hundred-person vote.
The word majority comes from the Latin maior, meaning "greater," which entered English via Middle French as a term for legal adulthood or seniority. It originally referred to being older than someone else before evolving into its current sense of representing more than half of a group.