Definitions for Minor
ˈmaɪ nərmi·nor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestlingadjective

   a young person of either sex

   "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

2. minoradjective

   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. minoradjective

   lesser in scope or effect

   "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"

4. minoradjective

   inferior in number or size or amount

   "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"

5. minoradjective

   of a scale or mode

   "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"

6. minor, nonaged, underageadjective

   not of legal age

   "minor children"

7. minoradjective

   of lesser seriousness or danger

   "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"

8. minoradjective

   of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

9. minor(ip)adjective

   of the younger of two boys with the same family name

   "Jones minor"

10. minor, venialadjective

    warranting only temporal punishment

    "venial sin"

11. minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sizedadjective

    limited in size or scope

    "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. minornoun

   A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.

   It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

2. minornoun

   A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

3. minornoun

   determinant of a square submatrix

4. minorverb

   To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

5. minoradjective

   Of little significance or importance.

   The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

6. minoradjective

   Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

   a minor scale.

7. minoradjective

   being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

8. Etymology: From minor

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. MINORadjective

   Etymology: Latin.

   1. Petty; inconsiderable.

   If there are petty errours and minor lapses, not considerably injurious unto faith, yet is it not safe to contemn inferiour falsities. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. v.

   2. Less; smaller.

   They altered this custom from cases of high concernment to the most trivial debates, the minor part ordinarily entering their protest. Edward Hyde.

   The difference of a third part in so large and collective an account is not strange, if we consider how differently they are set forth in minor and less mistakeable numbers. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

2. Minornoun

   1. One under age; one whose youth cannot yet allow him to manage his own affairs.

   King Richard the Second, the first ten years of his reign, was a minor. John Davies, on Ireland.

   He and his muse might be minors, but the libertines are full grown. Jeremy Collier, View of the Stage.

   Long as the year’s dull circle seems to run,
   When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one. Alexander Pope.

   The noblest blood of England having been shed in the grand rebellion, many great families became extinct, or supported only by minors. Jonathan Swift.

   A minor or infant cannot be said to be contumacious, because he cannot appear as a defendant in court, but by his guardian. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   2. The second or particular proposition in the syllogism.

   The second or minor proposition was, that this kingdom hath cause of just fear of overthrow from Spain. Francis Bacon.

   He supposed that a philosopher’s brain was like a forest, where ideas are ranged like animals of several kinds; that the major is the male, the minor the female, which copulate by the middle term, and engender the conclusion. Arbuthnot.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. minor

   A minor is generally defined as someone who is under the age of majority, not legally able to perform certain actions or decisions, such as voting or signing contracts. In addition, a minor could refer to a secondary or less important role in a particular situation or field. In the field of music, minor is a term used to describe a key, scale, or chord, having a melancholic or somber sound. In the field of academics, minor is used to represent a secondary focus of study. Hence, the term 'minor' has diverse meanings in different contexts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Minoradjective

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

2. Minoradjective

   less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third

3. Minornoun

   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. Minornoun

   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. Minornoun

   a Minorite; a Franciscan friar

6. Etymology: [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. miny`qein, Skr. mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Minor

   In law, a minor is a person under a certain age — usually the age of majority — which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood; the age depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is generally 18. "Minor" may also be used in contexts not connected to the overall age of majority; for example, the drinking age in the United States is 21, and people below this age are sometimes referred to as "minors" even if 18. The term underage is often used to refer to those under the age of majority, but may also refer to persons who are under a certain age limit, such as the drinking age, smoking age, age of consent, marriageable age, driving age, voting age etc., with these age limits often being different than the age of majority. The concept of "minor" is not sharply defined in most jurisdictions. The ages of criminal responsibility and consent, the age at which attendance at school ceases to be obligatory, the age at which legally binding contracts can be entered into, and so on, may all be different. In many countries, including Australia, India, Philippines, Brazil, Croatia and Colombia, a minor is defined as a person under the age of 18. In the United States, where the age of majority is set by the individual states, minor usually refers to someone under the age of 18, but can in some states be used in certain areas to define someone under the age of 21. In the criminal justice system in some places, "minor" is not entirely consistent, as a minor may be tried and punished for a crime either as a "juvenile" or, usually only for "extremely serious crimes" such as murder, as an "adult".

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Minor

   mī′nor, adj. smaller: less: inferior in importance, degree, bulk, &c.: inconsiderable: lower: (mus.) smaller by a semitone.—n. a person under age (21 years): (logic) the term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.—n. Mī′norite, a Franciscan friar.—adj. belonging to the Franciscans.—n. Minor′ity, the state of being under age (also Mī′norship): the smaller of two parts of a number: a number less than half:—opp. to Majority.—Minor canon, a canon of inferior grade who assists in performing the daily choral service in a cathedral; Minor mode or scale, the mode or scale in music which has the third note only three semitones above the key; Minor premise, the premise which contains the minor term; Minor prophets, the name given to the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi inclusive. [L., neut. minus.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. minor

   Under age. Minors will not be enlisted in the army of the United States without the consent of their parents or guardians. If any have enlisted and it becomes known, the Secretary of War, on demand, is required to grant the discharges from the army of minors who have enlisted without the consent of their parents or guardians.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MINOR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minor is ranked #1145 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Minor surname appeared 30,702 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 10 would have the surname Minor.
   
   55% or 16,886 total occurrences were White.
   37.1% or 11,409 total occurrences were Black.
   4.2% or 1,293 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 734 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 249 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 132 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Theology

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Minor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2233

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Minor' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2480

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Minor' in Adjectives Frequency: #290

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Anagrams for Minor »

1. morin

How to pronounce Minor?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Minor in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Minor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Minor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Minor in a Sentence

1. Dinesh Thakur:

   An overwhelming number of non-standard-quality drugs are not prosecuted in criminal cases, since state drug controllers only impose minor administrative penalties on the offenders.

2. Hannah Arendt:

   When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

3. Westfield High School:

   Thankfully most of the injuries seem to be minor.

4. Ambrose Bierce:

   Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   These, some personality issues and the rest, they are minor, we sat down today. We had a good meeting. And the congresswoman is a very gracious member of Congress, so we had a very positive conversation about our districts and how we represent them, our country.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Minor
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Minor
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Minor
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Minor
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Minor
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Minor
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Minor