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minor
1[mahy-ner]
adjective
lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two.
a minor share.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:not serious, important, etc..
a minor wound; a minor role.
having low rank, status, position, etc..
a minor official.
Synonyms: , ,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.
noun
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
Synonyms: ,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.
Sports.the minors, the minor leagues.
verb (used without object)
to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course.
to major in sociology and minor in art history.
Minor
2[mahy-ner]
noun
a male given name.
minor
/ ˈɪə /
adjective
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 See also minor key minor mode
a minor ninth
logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition
education of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student
(immediately postpositive) 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) Leisure:Bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells
grandsire minor
noun
a person or thing that is lesser or secondary
a person below the age of legal majority
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
verb
education to take a minor
Word History and Origins
Origin of minor1
Word History and Origins
Origin of minor1
Example Sentences
When I first met Amy in the emergency room, she had a minor laceration on her finger.
They had demoted Knack back to the minors, and watched Wrobleski give up four runs in six innings to the St. Louis Cardinals as his replacement.
None of them spent even 100 games in the minor leagues, and almost all of that limited time was spent at the highest levels of the minors.
In the 1980s, many youngsters and minors were picked up by Escobar to carry out hits.
The final stretch is so absurd that I turned into a jilted lover who kept score of every minor sin to vindicate why the film had broken my trust.
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