'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
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
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- second-rate,
- secondary,
- seminar,
- servile,
- shoestring,
- slight,
- slip,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-fry,
- small-time,
- smaller,
- 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
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.
Words containing 'Minor'
- Minorate,
- Minoration,
- Minorities,
- Minority,
- minors,
- Asia Minor,
- Briza minor,
- Canis minor,
- Chordeiles minor,
- Dendrocopus minor,
- Dryobates minor,
- Friars Minor,
- Leo Minor,
- Minor Hill,
- Minor canon,
- Minor mode,
- Minor orders,
- Minor scale,
- Minor third,
- Minor, AL,
- Paradisea minor,
- Philohela minor,
- Picus minor,
- Ursa Minor,
- Vinca minor,
- epilepsia minor,
- ethnic minority,
- lemna minor,
- minor axis,
- minor expense,
- minor key,
- minor league,
- minor leaguer,
- minor matter,
- minor planet,
- minor premise,
- minor premiss,
- minor role,
- minor suit,
- minor surgery,
- minor term,
- minor tranquilizer,
- minor tranquilliser,
- minor tranquillizer,
- minority group,
- minority leader,
- minority opinion,
- pectoralis minor,
- phacelia minor,
- pyrola minor,
- sarracenia minor,
- teres minor,
- variola minor,
- Minor Hill, TN,
- Minor Lane Heights,
- Minor term of a syllogism,
- minor diatonic scale,
- minor fast day,
- minor-league,
- musculus pectoralis minor,
- musculus rhomboideus minor,
- musculus teres minor,
- rhomboid minor muscle,
- teres minor muscle,
- variola minor virus,
- Minor Lane Heights, KY,
- a Minors Gray Friars or Franciscans,
- minor-league club,
- minor-league team