Definitions for Minor

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Minor mi·nor

Spelling: [mahy-ner]

IPA: /ˈmaɪ nər/

Minor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Minor (imnor).

Definitions for Minor

noun

1. a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
2. a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
3. Education. a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, especially a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course. a subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
4. Music. a minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
5. Mathematics. the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
6. (initial capital letter) Friar Minor.
7. the minors, Sports. the minor leagues.
8. a male given name.

adjective

1. lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two:
2. not serious, important, etc.:
3. having low rank, status, position, etc.:
4. under the legal age of full responsibility.
5. Education. of or relating to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
6. Music. (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.
7. of or relating to the minority.
8. (initial capital letter) (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing:

verb (used without object)

1. to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course:

Origin of Minor

1250-1300; Middle English Latin: smaller, less; akin to Old English min small, Old Norse minni smaller, Gothic minniza younger, Sanskrit mīnāti (he) diminishes, destroys

Examples for Minor

This man had an infected leg that required some minor surgery.

The man of purpose says no to all lesser calls, all minor opportunities.

He goes on to claim that these "minor insults" along with the other reveals have no news value.

The same holds good as to minor front or rear displacements.

The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.

It starts off like any other Lana tune, replete with minor chords and humming, distorted vocals.

He and his friends were approaching Macri, on the coast of Asia minor.

In the matter of minor industries, sericulture holds a first rank.

Once he was wearing bracelets, Wright quickly confessed to knowing that “Jane Doe” was a minor,  according to court papers.

A couple of people were treated for minor injuries but no major incidents occurred.