How to pronounce “minor”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
• [Noun]
• (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
• A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
• (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
• (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
• (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
• (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
• (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
• (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
• (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
• (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
• (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
• (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
• (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
• (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
• (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
• (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
• (Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
• (mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
• (UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.
• (graph theory) Short for graph minor
• [Verb]
• Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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