| 1. | lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share. |
| 2. | not serious, important, etc.: a minor wound; a minor role. |
| 3. | having low rank, status, position, etc.: a minor official. |
| 4. | under the legal age of full responsibility. |
| 5. | Education. of or pertaining to a field of study constituting a student's minor. |
| 6. | Music.
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| 7. | of or pertaining to the minority. |
| 8. | (initial capital letter ) (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing: Jackson Minor sits over here. |
| 9. | a person under the legal age of full responsibility. |
| 10. | a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc. |
| 11. | Education.
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| 12. | Music. a minor interval, chord, scale, etc. |
| 13. | Mathematics. the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix. |
| 14. | (initial capital letter ) Friar Minor. |
| 15. | the minors, Sports. the minor leagues. |
| 16. | to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to major in sociology and minor in art history. |

minor mi·nor (mī'nər)
adj.
Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.
Lesser in seriousness or danger.
minor
person below the legal age of majority or adulthood. The age of majority varies in different countries, and even in different jurisdictions within a country. It also differs with the type of activity concerned, such as marrying, purchasing alcohol, or driving an automobile. Twenty-one years is a common division between minors and adults.
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