Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun major_power

1 sense of major power

Sense 1
world power, major power, great power, power, superpower -- (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)
       => state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")