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minion

[ min-yuhn ]

noun

  1. a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
  2. a favored or highly regarded person.
  3. a minor official.
  4. Printing. a 7-point type.


adjective

  1. dainty; elegant; trim; pretty.

minion

/ ˈmɪnjən /

noun

  1. a favourite or dependant, esp a servile or fawning one
  2. a servile agent

    the minister's minions

  3. a size of printer's type, approximately equal to 7 point


adjective

  1. dainty, pretty, or elegant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of minion1

1490–1500; < Middle French mignon, for Old French mignot dainty < ?

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Word History and Origins

Origin of minion1

C16: from French mignon, from Old French mignot, of Gaulish origin

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Example Sentences

Pranab Mukherjee, a minion brought in primarily to help speed up bank loans to Sanjay, is currently the president of India.

Even worse, Rajiv Shah, the new head of USAID, is a Hillary “minion,” as one insider puts it, who has hardly put up a fight.

Falser than the Bank of Fancy, frailer than a shilling glove, Puppet to a father's anger, minion to a nabob's love!

The minion of a Czar and the representative of a nation cannot be united in one and the same person.

I was but planning with this minion here some way to freshen your spirits.

I will have a garment reach to my taille; Then am I a minion, for I wear the new guise.

It seemed as if he would scarce ever again discover the carnate dwelling-place of the haunting minion of his imagination.

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