absolute majority

1. 1.

   (elections) more than half of the votes

   Synonymsmajority

   Broaderrelative quantity

   election

Questions about absolute majority

What does absolute majority mean?

absolute majority means "(elections) more than half of the votes".

What is another word for absolute majority?

Close synonyms include majority. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absolute majority a common word?

absolute majority is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.