<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (majority).</li><li>more than half of the whole; the majority.</li><li>a number greater than one.</li><li>fact of being numerous.</li><li>a large number; multitude.</li><li>state or fact of being plural.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: the holding by one person of two or more benefices at the same time; pluralism.</li><li>any of the benefices so held.</li></ul>