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minor

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minor in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. 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
  1. inferior in number or size or amount
    "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
    minor 
  2. lesser in scope or effect
    "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
    minor 
  3. not of legal age
    "minor children"
    minor  nonaged  underage 
  4. of a scale or mode
    "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
    minor 
  5. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
    minor 
  6. 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 
  7. of lesser seriousness or danger
    "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
    minor 
  8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name
    "Jones minor"
    minor 
  9. 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 
  10. warranting only temporal punishment
    "venial sin"
    minor  venial 
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