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What's The Definition Of Minor?
[n] a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
[adj] limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" [adj] inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" [adj] lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" [adj] (law) not of legal age; "minor children" [adj] (music) of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" [adj] of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization [adj] 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" [adj] of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" [adj] (theology) warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" Synonyms | Synonyms for Minor: child | fry | insignificant | kid | limited | modest | nestling | nipper | nonaged | pardonable | peanut | pocket-size | pocket-sized | secondary | shaver | small | small fry | small-scale | tiddler | tike | tyke | underage | venial | youngster Related Terms | Find terms related to Minor: academic specialty | adolescent | area | average | baby | back-burner | boy | budding | callow | casual | child | classical education | common | core curriculum | course | course of study | curriculum | demeaning | dependent | dewy | dinky | disadvantaged | discipline | dispensable | dominant | elective | fair | field | fledgling | general education | general studies | girl | green | growing | hopeful | humanities | humble | immaterial | immature | impubic | in the shade | inappreciable | inconsequential | inconsiderable | indifferent | inessential | inexperienced | infant | inferior | infra dig | ingenuous | innocent | insignificant | intact | irrelevant | juicy | junior | juvenal | juvenile | key | key signature | keynote | lad | laddie | lass | lassie | less | lesser | liberal arts | light | little | low | lower | lowly | major | major key | mediant | mediocre | medium | middling | minute | modest | naive | negligible | new-fledged | nonessential | not vital | obscure | one-horse | ordinary | paltry | pedal point | petit | petty | picayune | piddling | proseminar | pubescent | quadrivium | raw | refresher course | ripening | sapling | sappy | schoolboy | schoolgirl | scientific education | second rank | second string | secondary | second-rate | seminar | servile | shoestring | slight | slip | small | small-beer | smaller | small-fry | small-time | specialty | sprig | stripling | study | sub | subaltern | subdiscipline | subdominant | subject | submediant | subordinate | subservient | subsidiary | subtonic | supertonic | technical | technical education | teenager | teener | teenybopper | tender | third rank | third string | tonality | tonic | tonic key | trifling | trivial | trivium | two-bit | unadult | underage | underprivileged | undeveloped | undistinguished | unessential | unfledged | unformed | unimportant | unimpressive | unlicked | unmellowed | unnoteworthy | unnoticeable | unripe | unseasoned | vernal | virginal | vulgar | ward | young hopeful | young person | younger | youngest | youngling | youngster | youth See Also | bairn | bambino | buster | changeling | child's body | foster-child | imp | juvenile | juvenile person | kiddy | monkey | orphan | picaninny | piccaninny | pickaninny | preschooler | pupil | rapscallion | rascal | scalawag | scallywag | scamp | schoolchild | silly | sprog | toddler | tot | urchin | waif | yearling Minor In Webster's Dictionary \Mi"nor\, a. [L., a comparative with no positive; akin to
AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG. minniro, a., min, adv.,
Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth. minniza, a., mins, adv.,
Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L. minuere to lessen, Gr. ?,
Skr. mi to damage. Cf. {Minish}, {Minister}, {Minus},
{Minute}.]
1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller;
of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of
pitch; as, a minor third.
{Asia Minor} (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia
which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north,
and the Mediterranean on the south.
{Minor mode} (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third
and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn
subjects.
{Minor orders} (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in
ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as
doorkeepers, acolytes, etc.
{Minor scale} (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various.
The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor,
with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which
involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones,
between the sixth and seventh, as, ^{6/F}, ^{7/G[sharp]},
^{8/A}. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the
seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and
minor in the descending, scale, thus:
\Mi"nor\, n. 1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age. Note: In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age. 2. (Logic) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness. 3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. |
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