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minor in WordNet English dictionary
noun- a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
child kid youngster minor shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling
adjective- inferior in number or size or amount
"a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
minor
- lesser in scope or effect
"had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
minor
- not of legal age
"minor children"
minor nonaged underage
- of a scale or mode
"the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
minor
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
minor
- 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"
minor
- of lesser seriousness or danger
"suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
minor
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
"Jones minor"
minor
- limited in size or scope
"a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
minor modest small small-scale pocket-size pocket-sized
- warranting only temporal punishment
"venial sin"
minor venial
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University