minoradjective
uk/ˈmaɪ.nər/us/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/minor adjective (UNIMPORTANT)
B2 having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the same type:
a minor operation
It's only a minor problem.
There's been an increase in minor offences, such as traffic violations and petty theft.
She suffered only minor injuries.
It requires a few minor adjustments.
a minor poet of the 16th century
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- For the sake of completeness , I should also mention two other minor developments.
- Treat minor ailments yourself.
- The fear is that these minor clashes may develop into all-out confrontation.
- They had minor breakthroughs but real success eluded them.
- Your health is generally good, but you do have a few minor problems.
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Of little or less importance
- be in/under sb's shadow idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no big deal idiom
- biggie
- derisory
- fringe
- inferior
- merely
- miss
- mouldy
- need
- neither
- peripheral
- petty
- rinky-dink
- sideshow
- small-time
- stay
- stay on the sidelines idiom
- subordinate
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minor adjective (MUSIC)
music belonging or relating to a musical scale that is generally thought to have a sad sound:
The piece is written in a minor key.
Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor
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Notes of the musical scale
- A, a
- B, b
- C, c
- D, d
- doh
- E, e
- flat
- la
- lah
- lah 1
- major
- mi
- middle C
- natural
- register
- soh
- sol
- sol-fa
- te
- ti
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minornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmaɪ.nər/us/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/legalsomeone who is too young to have the legal responsibilities of an adult:
He was accused of having sex with a minor.
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teen
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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minorverb
uk/ˈmaɪ.nər/us/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/minor in sth US
to study something as your second most important subject in college:
I minored in Spanish in college.
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Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- audit
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hear tell (of) idiom
- know better (than sb) idiom
- know which side your bread is buttered (on) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- tell
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