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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mi•nor /ˈmaɪnɚ/USA pronunciation adj. - lesser, as in size, extent, or rank:a minor role.
- under full legal age.
- Educationof or relating to a student's academic minor:minor subjects.
- Music and Dance(in music) based on a scale in which the third note is one half step smaller than the corresponding major scale:a minor key.
n. [countable] - a person under full legal age:corrupting the morals of a minor.
- Education
- Educationa subject or course of knowledge studied secondarily to a major subject or course.
- a student studying such a subject:the number of physics majors and English minors.
- Music and Dancea minor musical scale, chord, etc.
v. [no object] - Educationto choose or study as a secondary academic subject:to minor in biology.
See -min-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mi•nor (mī′nər),USA pronunciation adj. - lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two:a minor share.
- not serious, important, etc.:a minor wound; a minor role.
- having low rank, status, position, etc.:a minor official.
- under the legal age of full responsibility.
- Educationof or pertaining to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
- Music and Dance
- (of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.
- (of a chord) having a minor third between the root and the note next above it.
- of or pertaining to the minority.
- Education(cap.) (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing:Jackson Minor sits over here.
n. - a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
- Education
- a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, esp. a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.
- Educationa subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
- Music and Dancea minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
- [Math.]the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
- Religion(cap.) See Friar Minor.
- Sportthe minors, the minor leagues.
v.i. - Educationto choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course:to major in sociology and minor in art history.
- Latin: smaller, less; akin to Old English min small, Old Norse minni smaller, Gothic minniza younger, Sanskrit mīnāti (he) diminishes, destroys
- Middle English 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged smaller, inferior, secondary, subordinate.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged petty, unimportant, small.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged child, adolescent.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged major.
Mi•nor (mī′nər),USA pronunciation n. - a male given name.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: minor /ˈmaɪnə/ adj - lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree
- of or relating to the minority
- below the age of legal majority
- (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor)
- (of a key) based on the minor scale
- (postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale: C minor
- (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major
- (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root
- (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh: a minor ninth
- (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition
- US of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student
- (immediately postpositive) Brit the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school
n - a person or thing that is lesser or secondary
- a person below the age of legal majority
- US Canadian a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major
- a minor key, chord, mode, or scale
- a minor term or premise
vb - (intransitive) usually followed by in: US to take a minor
Etymology: 13th Century: from Latin: less, smaller; related to Old High German minniro smaller, Gothic minniza least, Latin minuere to diminish, Greek meiōn less |