[
US
/ˈmaɪnɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈaɪnɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈaɪnɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relatively moderate, limited, or small
a small business
a pocket-size country
small-scale plans
a newspaper with a modest circulation -
inferior in number or size or amount
a minor share of the profits
Ursa Minor -
of lesser seriousness or danger
some minor flooding
suffered only minor injuries
a minor tropical disturbance -
of lesser importance or stature or rank
minor back roads
many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen
a minor poet
had a minor part in the play
a minor official -
warranting only temporal punishment
venial sin -
not of legal age
minor children -
(of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
in B flat minor
the minor keys -
of the younger of two boys with the same family name
Jones minor -
lesser in scope or effect
a minor disturbance
had minor differences - of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
NOUN
-
a young person of either sex
they're just kids
she writes books for children
`tiddler' is a British term for youngster
VERB
-
have as one's secondary field of study
in collee she minored in mathematics
How To Use minor In A Sentence
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
- The birth of her son was a minor interruption to her career.
- Police arrested 13 people, and some students were treated for minor injuries at the scene in northeast El Paso.
- He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
- Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
- The duke and duchess were caught up in a minor earthquake in Assam last night. Times, Sunday Times
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- The White Shadow – A unique series that took a rather real look at urban life among predominately minority teen-agers. Hulu Awards: Johnny Jay’s Final Wrap Up and Best of Hulu
- They will need to be against an Abbeyside team being groomed for glory on the back of outstanding Under-21 and minor success.
