minor
lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
not serious, important, etc.: a minor wound; a minor role.
having low rank, status, position, etc.: a minor official.
under the legal age of full responsibility.
Education. of or relating to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
Music.
(of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.
(of a chord) having a minor third between the root and the note next above it.
of or relating to the minority.
(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.
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
Education.
a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, especially a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.
a subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
Music. a minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
Mathematics. the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
(initial capital letter) Friar Minor.
the minors, Sports. the minor leagues.
to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to major in sociology and minor in art history.
Origin of minor
1Other words for minor
1 | smaller, inferior, secondary, subordinate |
3 | petty, unimportant, small |
9 | child, adolescent |
Opposites for minor
Words that may be confused with minor
Other definitions for Minor (2 of 2)
a male given name.
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How to use minor in a sentence
Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
Minors are some of the most heart-wrenching cases of police shootings.
Worse Than Eric Garner: Cops Who Got Away With Killing Autistic Men and Little Girls | Emily Shire | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf those, 376 are on the ground in Syria and Iraq, including 88 women and 10 minors.
Showing the Faces of Its Murderers, ISIS Shows Its Global Reach | Tracy McNicoll | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Friday, many of the minors came back to plead to the residents that this was their only home.
In Rome’s Riots, Cries for Mussolini and Attacks on Refugees | Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is accused of using her celebrity to recruit socially disadvantaged minors with the potential to become professional models.
Colombian Beauty Queen Arrested for Running Child Prostitution Ring | Jason Batansky | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Some corporations are still denied voluntary action, as well as minors and insane persons.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesAgain appears the risk of making contracts with minors, though the situation many times seems clearly to justify such action.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesAny person may be a devisee or legatee including married women, minors and corporations.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIn some of the compensation acts minors are excluded, in other acts he is protected by them.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesFrom 1800 to 1805 she was a clothing dealer; and from 1806 to 1808 she spent two years in prison for having influenced minors.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
British Dictionary definitions for minor
/ (ˈmaɪnə) /
lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree: a minor poet; minor burns
of or relating to the minority
below the age of legal majority
music
(of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor): See also harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale
(of a key) based on the minor scale
(postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale: C minor
(of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major
(of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root
(esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh: a minor ninth See also minor key, minor mode
logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition
US education of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student
(immediately postpositive) British the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school: Hunt minor
(postpositive) bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells: grandsire minor
a person or thing that is lesser or secondary
a person below the age of legal majority
US and Canadian education a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major
music a minor key, chord, mode, or scale
logic a minor term or premise
maths
a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removing the row and column containing that element
Also called: cofactor, signed minor the number equal to this reduced determinant
(capital) another name for Minorite
(intr usually foll by in) US education to take a minor
Origin of minor
1- Compare major
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