Minor
WordNet
adjective
(1) Limited in size or scope
"A small business"
"A newspaper with a modest circulation"
"Small-scale plans"
"A pocket-size country"
(2) Inferior in number or size or amount
"A minor share of the profits"
"Ursa Minor"
(3) Lesser in scope or effect
"Had minor differences"
"A minor disturbance"
(4) Not of legal age
"Minor children"
(5) Of a scale or mode
"The minor keys"
"In B flat minor"
(6) Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
(7) Of lesser importance or 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"
(8) Of lesser seriousness or danger
"Suffered only minor injuries"
"Some minor flooding"
"A minor tropical disturbance"
(9) Warranting only temporal punishment
"Venial sin"
noun
(10) A young person of either sex
"She writes books for children"
"They're just kids"
"`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
minor
Noun
- A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
- I became an English minor.
- determinant of a square submatrix
Verb
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
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