minor
/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/ noun C1- 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. · No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.· He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues. · He plays in the minors.· She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
- A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major. · I got a minor in English Lit.
- A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study. · I became an English minor.
- A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
Plural minors
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She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the lovely wild-rose pink, from which Anne was forever debarred; but she was not to take any part in the concert, so her appearance was of minor importance.
Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de’ Medici.
I have, therefore, received a very good education, and have been treated by these kidnappers very much as the slaves were treated in Asia Minor, whose masters made them grammarians, doctors, and philosophers, in order that they might fetch a higher price in the Roman market.”
“Well, in investigating this minor affair we must not lose sight of our main inquiry.
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