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

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], fry [archaic], nestling [informal], wean [UK, Ireland, dialect], kiddy [informal], kiddie [informal]
    
2. (law) someone too young to have full legal responsibility
   - infant

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

Sounds like: mind, miinor, miner, m

Derived forms: minors, minoring, minored

See also: insignificant, junior, limited, minority, pardonable, peanut, secondary

Type of: juvenile, juvenile person, study

Antonym: major

Encyclopedia: Minor, Stephen