minor

Meaning

Adj

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
2. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
3. (figuratively, sometimes) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
4. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
5. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
6. (Canada, US) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
7. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
8. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
9. (UK, dated) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
10. (historical) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
11. (historical) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
12. (obsolete) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
13. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
14. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Noun

1. A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
4. (Canada, US) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
5. (Canada, US, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
6. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
7. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
11. (Australian) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
14. Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
15. A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
16. Changes rung on six bells.
17. (obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
18. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
19. (UK, obsolete, rare) The younger brother of a pupil.
20. (abbreviation, alt-of) Short for graph minor

Verb

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Synonyms

insignificant

small

unimportant

secondary

trivial

underage

🔞

petty

trifling

slight

little

younger

child

🧒

negligible

subordinate

marginal

smaller

light

venial

lower

less

paltry

under age

junior

inconsiderable

inconsequential

small-scale

kid

🧒

nonaged

youngster

accessory

youth

inferior

young

trifle

immaterial

tiny

tyke

small fry

fry

puny

shaver

subsidiary

lesser

of no account

piddling

nestling

minority

modest

incidental

nipper

Translations

mineur

menor

minore

menor

minorenne

Minderjähriger

menor

menor de edad

🔞

Moll

ανήλικος

ελάσσων

kleiner

unbedeutend

minderjarige

Minderjährige

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: minor

Cognate with Latin: minimum

Cognate with Old High German: minniro

Cognate with Cornish: minow

In summary

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

Sentences

His wife and son had minor injuries .

A library was also established at that time and other minor changes were made .

The rim is otherwise relatively sharply defined , with only a minor amount of wear .

This tension together with some minor injuries made Souness less keen to keep him .