Major and Spare

Major

Major adjective - Sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention.

Spare and major are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Major".

Nearby Words: majority, majored, majoring

Spare

Spare adjective - Being over what is needed.

Major and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Major" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Both words in one sentence

  • Inn of No Return Procrustes had a spare room and a spare iron bed, which he would offer to people who came past his house (as it was on a major road a little outside Athens, there were a lot of those).
  • Literature / The Antithesis Currently, other major Fallen characters involve: Belial - Hell socialite and Archdemon of Tehlor, The 5th Layer of Hell, who also directs and writes plays in his spare time.
  • Of the major characters: Rand and his harem, Nynaeve and Lan as soon as there's a second to spare, and, as of The Gathering Storm, Gareth Byrne and Siuan.Towers Of Midnight adds Egwene and Gawyn.
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