major power

n.

1.

A nation powerful enough to influence events throughout the world.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

major power - a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world great power, superpower, world power, power body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - 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" hegemon - a leading or paramount power