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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
mi•nor /ˈmaɪnɚ/USA pronunciation   adj. 
  1. lesser, as in size, extent, or rank:a minor role.
  2. under full legal age.
  3. Educationof or relating to a student's academic minor:minor subjects.
  4. Music and Dance(in music) based on a scale in which the third note is one half step smaller than the corresponding major scale:a minor key.

n. [countable]
  1. a person under full legal age:corrupting the morals of a minor.
  2. Education
    • Educationa subject or course of knowledge studied secondarily to a major subject or course.
    • a student studying such a subject:the number of physics majors and English minors.
  3. Music and Dancea minor musical scale, chord, etc.

v. [no object]
  1. Educationto choose or study as a secondary academic subject:to minor in biology.
See -min-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mi•nor  (mī′nər),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two:a minor share.
  2. not serious, important, etc.:a minor wound; a minor role.
  3. having low rank, status, position, etc.:a minor official.
  4. under the legal age of full responsibility.
  5. Educationof or pertaining to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
  6. Music and Dance
    • (of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.
    • (of a chord) having a minor third between the root and the note next above it.
  7. of or pertaining to the minority.
  8. Education(cap.) (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing:Jackson Minor sits over here.

n. 
  1. a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
  2. a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
  3. Education
    • a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, esp. a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.
    • Educationa subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
  4. Music and Dancea minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
  5. [Math.]the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
  6. Religion(cap.) See Friar Minor. 
  7. Sportthe minors, the minor leagues.

v.i. 
  1. Educationto choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course:to major in sociology and minor in art history.
  • Latin: smaller, less; akin to Old English min small, Old Norse minni smaller, Gothic minniza younger, Sanskrit mīnāti (he) diminishes, destroys
  • Middle English 1250–1300
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged smaller, inferior, secondary, subordinate.
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged petty, unimportant, small.
    • 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged child, adolescent.
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged major.
Mi•nor  (mī′nər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a male given name.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
minor / ˈmaɪnə/
  1. lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree
  2. of or relating to the minority
  3. below the age of legal majority
  4. (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor)
    See also harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale
  5. (of a key) based on the minor scale
  6. (postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale: C minor
  7. (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major
  8. (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root
  9. (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh: a minor ninth
  10. (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition
  11. of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student
  12. (immediately postpositive) the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school
  1. a person or thing that is lesser or secondary
  2. a person below the age of legal majority
  3. a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major
  4. a minor key, chord, mode, or scale
  5. a minor term or premise
  1. (intransitive) usually followed by in: to take a minor

Compare majorEtymology: 13th Century: from Latin: less, smaller; related to Old High German minniro smaller, Gothic minniza least, Latin minuere to diminish, Greek meiōn less

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