minor
Meaning of minor
noun
- A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- 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 became an English minor.
- Determinant of a square submatrix
- (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
- The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
- 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.
- Of little significance or importance.
The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
a minor scale
- Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
Information about minor
- The plural form of minor is: minors.
- Languages in which minor is used:
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Hyphenation of minor
mi-nor
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- minor is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
minor synonyms
Meaning nonaged:
Meaning venial:
Meaning modest:
Meaning child:
child, kid, youngster, shaver, nipper, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
minor antonyms
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Anagrams of minor
Words that rhyme with minor
Gainor, Trainor, attainor, bargainor, distrainor, gainor, mainor, maintainor, dinor, Elinor, Minor, alluminor, semiminor, spinor, trinor
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