'Minor' definitions:

Definition of 'minor'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: major]
adjective
Lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" [ant: major]
adjective
Inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" [ant: major]
adjective
Of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" [ant: major]
adjective
Not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor, nonaged, underage] [ant: major]
adjective
Of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" [ant: major]
adjective
Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization [ant: major]
adjective
Of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
adjective
Warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" [syn: minor, venial]
adjective
Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized]
noun
A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]

Definition of 'Minor'

From: GCIDE
  • Minor \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'minor'

From: GCIDE
  • minor \mi"nor\ (m[imac]"n[~e]r), 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. miny`qein, Skr. mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. [1913 Webster]
  • 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: [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] See Major.
  • Minor term of a syllogism (Logic), the subject of the conclusion. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'minor'

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Minor, AL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Minor, AL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama
Population (2000) :
1116
Housing Units (2000) :
471
Land area (2000) :
0.694337 sq. miles (1.798324 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.694337 sq. miles (1.798324 sq. km)
FIPS code :
49072
Located within :
Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location :
33.539656 N, 86.940000 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.