minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
(adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small; âa small businessâ; âa newspaper with a modest circulationâ; âsmall-scale plansâ; âa pocket-size countryâ
minor
(adjective) inferior in number or size or amount; âa minor share of the profitsâ; âUrsa Minorâ
minor
(adjective) lesser in scope or effect; âhad minor differencesâ; âa minor disturbanceâ
minor, nonaged, underage
(adjective) not of legal age; âminor childrenâ
minor
(adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees; âthe minor keysâ; âin B flat minorâ
minor
(adjective) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
minor
(adjective) of lesser importance or stature or rank; âa minor poetâ; âhad a minor part in the playâ; âa minor officialâ; âmany of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemenâ; âminor back roadsâ
minor
(adjective) of lesser seriousness or danger; âsuffered only minor injuriesâ; âsome minor floodingâ; âa minor tropical disturbanceâ
minor, venial
(adjective) warranting only temporal punishment; âvenial sinâ
minor
(adjective) of the younger of two boys with the same family name; âJones minorâ
child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
(noun) a young person of either sex; âshe writes books for childrenâ; âtheyâre just kidsâ; ââtiddlerâ is a British term for youngsterâ
minor
(verb) have as oneâs secondary field of study; âin collee she minored in mathematicsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
Of little significance or importance.
(music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
• See also insignificant
• See also small
• major
minor (plural minors)
A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
(British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
(zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
(logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
(campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
• (law): underage (adjective)
• (law): adult
• major
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
• I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
• Miron, Morin, morin
Minor (plural Minors)
A surname.
• Miron, Morin, morin
Source: Wiktionary
Mi"nor, a. Etym: [L., a comparative with no positive; akin to AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG. minniro, a., min, adv., Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth. minniza, a., mins, adv., Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L. minuere to lessen, Gr. mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.]
1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south.
– Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects.
– Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc.
– Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, 6/F, 7/G#, 8/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: --See Major.
– Minor term of syllogism (Logic), the subject of the conclusion.
Mi"nor, n.
1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
Note: In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age.
2. (Logic)
Definition: The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
