Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MINOR

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Definitions of MINOR

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
3. (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.
4. (music) Ellipsis of minor interval., scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.
5. (North America, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
6. (North America, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
7. (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
8. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor.: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
9. (logic) Ellipsis of minor term. or minor premise.
10. (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.
11. (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
12. (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
13. (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
14. (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.
15. (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
16. (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
17. (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
18. (Scottishlaw, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
19. (mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
20. (UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.
21. A surname.

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Examples of Using MINOR in a Sentence

• Asia Minor is an alternative name for Anatolia, the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
• An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
• In 1171 he was crowned co-emperor, and in 1175 he accompanied his father at Dorylaion in Asia Minor in order to have the city rebuilt.
• The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition.
• Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire, Anaxagoras came to Athens.
• He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries.
• Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party splinter groups, it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time.
• It forms part of the Book of the twelve minor prophets or the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and is a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
• Obadiah is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the final section of Nevi'im, the second main division of the Hebrew Bible.
• The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament.
• In the Hebrew Bible, the text is included as part of the Twelve Minor Prophets, itself a part of the second division of that work.
• Christian eschatology is a minor branch of study within Christian theology which deals with the doctrine of the "last things", especially the Second Coming of Christ, or Parousia.
• A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate.
• Its name is Latin for "greater dog" in contrast to Canis Minor, the "lesser dog"; both figures are commonly represented as following the constellation of Orion the hunter through the sky.
• The economy of the Cook Islands is based mainly on tourism, with minor exports made up of tropical and citrus fruit.
• Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina.
• It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and chromatic chord progressions.
• One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit as a member of the minor league Western League in 1894 and is the only Western League team still in its original city.
• Minor battles were fought, sometimes at night, between gangs of smugglers, such as the Hawkhurst Gang, and His Majesty's Customs and Excise / Revenue, supported by the British Army, Royal Navy and local militias in the counties of the South Kent and Sussex.
• She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in his Bride of the Monster.
• 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly (crystal form), is an empathogen–entactogenic drug with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties.
• The Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) is the second generation of the Amiga computer's chipset, offering minor improvements over the original chipset (OCS) design.
• His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.
• First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with either a minor or serious illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery until medical services arrive.
• The letter is addressed to the "chosen pilgrims of the diaspora" in Asia Minor suffering religious persecution.

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