major mode

1. 1.

   a key whose harmony is based on the major scale

   Synonymsmajor key

   Broaderkey

Questions about major mode

What does major mode mean?

major mode means "a key whose harmony is based on the major scale".

What is another word for major mode?

Close synonyms include major key. 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 major mode a common word?

major mode 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.