Minor

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/ · adjective

Meaning

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
2. (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
3. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
4. (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
5. (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
6. (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
7. (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
8. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

Example Sentences

of minor importance

a minor poet

Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio.

It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.

There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.

He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.

King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor.

Synonyms for minor

Antonyms for minor

Related Words

Word Forms

• more minor
• most minor
• miner
• maner
• minore
• minour
• mynor
• mynour
• mynowr
• mi
• minors
• minoring
• minored

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