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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: subordinate, secondary, inferior
Antonyms: major
- not serious, important, etc.:
a minor wound; a minor role.
- having low rank, status, position, etc.:
a minor official.
Synonyms: unimportant, small, petty
- 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: adolescent, child
- 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.
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
/ ˈmaɪnə /
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 calledcofactorsigned minor the number equal to this reduced determinant
- capital another name for Minorite
verb
- intrusually foll byin education to take a minor
Word History and Origins
Origin of minor1
Word History and Origins
Origin of minor1
Example Sentences
James Outman is on the roster for Tokyo but appears destined to follow Kim to the minors, having struck out in 15 of 36 plate appearances while trying to adapt to his own altered swing.
But the team did release a list of players who won’t be going after sending seven players to the team’s minor league camp.
Marvin has seen first hand how those connected to the drug trade view minor criminals like John George.
More than 20 states have banned the practice, which presses LGBTQ+ minors into disavowing their sexualities or identifying with the gender they were assigned at birth.
“There is a fierce public debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria,” Thomas said, and the state has “silenced one side of this debate.”
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