major power

1. 1.

   a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

   Synonymsworld powergreat powerpowersuperpower

   Broaderstate

   Narrowerhegemon

Questions about major power

What does major power mean?

major power means "a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world".

What is another word for major power?

Close synonyms include world power, great power, power, superpower. 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 power a common word?

major power 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.