Definitions of minor [ˈmaɪ nər]

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Definition of 'minor'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) minor
lesser, as in size, extent, or amount, or being or noting the lesser of two:
a minor share.

2.  minor
lesser, as in seriousness, importance, or rank:
a minor wound; a minor role.

3.  minor
under full legal age.

4.  minor
of or pertaining to a student's academic minor.

5.  minor
(of a musical interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.

6.  minor
(of a chord) containing a minor third.

7.  minor
based on a minor scale:
a minor key.

8.  minor
of or pertaining to the minority.

9. (n.) minor
a person under full legal age.

10.  minor
a subject or course of study pursued secondarily to a major subject or course.

11.  minor
a minor musical interval, chord, scale, etc.

12.  minor
the minors, the minor leagues.

13. (v.i.) minor
to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course:
to minor in biology.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < L: smaller, less; akin to OE min small, Skt mīnāti (he) diminishes)

Definition of 'minor'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

2. (adj) minor
of lesser importance or stature or rank
"a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"

3. (adj) minor
lesser in scope or effect
"had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"

4. (adj) minor
inferior in number or size or amount
"a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"

5. (adj) minor
of a scale or mode
"the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"

6. (adj) minor, nonaged, underage
not of legal age
"minor children"

7. (adj) minor
of lesser seriousness or danger
"suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"

8. (adj) minor
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

9. (adj) minor(ip)
of the younger of two boys with the same family name
"Jones minor"

10. (adj) minor, venial
warranting only temporal punishment
"venial sin"

11. (adj) minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
limited in size or scope
"a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

Definition of 'minor'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) minor
not very important or severe
a minor traffic accident; minor changes; The problems were minor compared to last time.

2. (noun) minor
sb who is not legally an adult
the offense of selling alcohol to minors

3. minor
a subject that appears on sb's college degree that is less important than a major
My minor was in Psychology.

4. (verb) minor
to study an academic subject in order to receive a minor
I minored in Psychology.

Definition of 'minor'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) minor
inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body

2. (adj) minor
less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third

3. (noun) minor
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

4. (noun) minor
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

5. (noun) minor
a Minorite; a Franciscan friar

Translation of 'minor'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: less, or little, in importance, size etc Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.
Afrikaans: klein	Arabic: أقَل	Bulgarian: малък
Brazilian: pouco importante	Czech: menší, vedlejší	German: kleiner
Danish: mindre	Greek: μικρός, ασήμαντος, δευτερ	Spanish: menor
Estonian: väiksem	Farsi: کم	Finnish: vähäinen
French: secondaire, mineur, petit	Hebrew: מִשנִי	Hindi: छोटा, लघु
Croatian: sporedni	Hungarian: kisebb	Indonesian: kecil
Icelandic: smávægilegur	Italian: minore, secondario	Japanese: (より) 小さい
Korean: 보다 작은, 중요하지 않은	Lithuanian: nedidelis,šalutinis	Latvian: mazāks; mazsvarīgāks
Malay: kecil	Dutch: klein	Norwegian: mindre (betydelig), under
Polish: (po)mniejszy, niewielki,	Persian: کم	Pashto: لږ
Portuguese: pouco importante	Romanian: minor, secundar, neimport	Russian: незначительный; второстеп
Slovak: menší, vedľajší	Slovenian: manj pomemben	Serbian: manji
Swedish: mindre	Thai: เล็กน้อย	Turkish: küçük, ufak, önemsiz
Taiwanese: 較小的，次要的	Ukrainian: менший	Urdu: اہمیت، حجم وغیرہ میں کم
Vietnamese: nhỏ; thứ yếu	Chinese: 较小的，次要的
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