1. Of lesser importance, stature or rank
   "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"
    
2. Lesser in scope or effect
   "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
    
3. Inferior in number, size or amount
   "Ursa Minor"; "a minor share of the profits"
    
4. Of lesser seriousness or danger
   "a minor tropical disturbance"; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"
    
5. Relatively moderate, limited, or small
   "a newspaper with a minor circulation";
   - modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
    
6. (law) not of legal age
   "minor children";
   - nonaged, underage
    
7. (music) of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat
   "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
    
8. Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
   "He pursued a minor in psychology alongside his major in biology"
    
9. [Brit] Of the younger of two boys with the same family name
   "Jones minor"
    
10. (theology) warranting only temporal punishment
    "minor sin";
    - venial

1. A young person of either sex
   "she writes books for minors";
   - child, kid [informal], youngster, shaver [informal], nipper [informal], small fry [informal], tiddler [Brit, informal], tike [informal], tyke [informal], nestling [informal], wean [UK, Ireland, dialect], kiddy [informal], kiddie [informal]
    
2. (law) someone too young to have full legal responsibility
   "As a minor, she needed a parent's consent";
   - infant

1. Have as one's secondary field of study
   "in college she minored in mathematics"
    
2. [N. Amer] (higher education) study as a secondary subject
   "She majored in physics and minored in mathematics"

Sounds like: mind, miinor, miner, m

Derived forms: minors, minored, minoring

See also: insignificant, junior, limited, minority, pardonable, peanut [N. Amer], secondary

Type of: juvenile, juvenile person, study

Antonym: major

Encyclopedia: Minor, Stephen