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Minor

adjective

1.

Of lesser importance or stature or rank. "Had a minor part in the play" , "A minor official" , "Many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen" , "Minor back roads" Antonym: major.

2.

Lesser in scope or effect. "A minor disturbance" Antonym: major.

3.

Inferior in number or size or amount. "Ursa Minor" Antonym: major.

4.

Of a scale or mode. "In B flat minor" Antonym: major.

5.

Not of legal age. Synonyms: nonaged, underage. Antonym: major.

6.

Of lesser seriousness or danger. "Some minor flooding" , "A minor tropical disturbance" Antonym: major.

7.

Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization. Antonym: major.

8.

Of the younger of two boys with the same family name.

9.

Warranting only temporal punishment. Synonym: venial.

10.

Limited in size or scope. Synonyms: modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale. "A newspaper with a modest circulation" , "Small-scale plans" , "A pocket-size country"

noun

1.

A young person of either sex. Synonyms: child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster. "They're just kids" , "'tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

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"Minor" Quotes from Famous Books

... main, that of Walther, though the other editors just named have been consulted; and in such minor differences as exist between them, I have not hesitated to adopt the reading which seemed best to accord with the usage and genius of Tacitus, especially when sanctioned by a decided preponderance of critical suffrage. Other readings have been ...

— Germania and Agricola • Caius Cornelius Tacitus

... of the time their impression had been that it was the dragon-boat they had seen going up, but as it drew nearer they made out that it was manned by Malays, evidently of the poorer classes, but well-armed and in all probability followers of some minor chief. ...

— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn

... not know who composed the overture. It is haunted by one exquisite air, repeated, fading into variations, then rising once more only to sink into the tender sorrow of a minor key. I have heard it but twice in my life, but the music of it is with me to this day. Then, as I heard it, it carried me back to the hour when Tom and I sat expectant in this same theatre, he trembling for his play's success, I for the sight of my love. ...

— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... said when he imitated Lucilius, might be said of Butler by Prior; his numbers were not smooth nor neat. Prior excelled him in versification; but he was, like Horace, inventore minor; he had not Butler's exuberance of matter and variety of illustration. The spangles of wit which he could afford he knew how to polish; but he wanted the bullion of his master. Butler pours out a negligent profusion, certain of the weight, but careless of the stamp. ...

— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson

... it that being now in minor orders, you already possess the confidence of the Almighty. He will have confided to you His intention of changing the ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

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