Definitions
1.AdjectiveLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:"of minor importance; a minor poet; The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.; She suffered a minor injury.; There was minor bruising.; He has a minor case of puppy love.; The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.; Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.; The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.; The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal."
2.AdjectiveUnderage, not having reached legal majority."The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children."
3.AdjectiveNot serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization."She suffered a minor injury.; There was minor bruising.; He has a minor case of puppy love."
4.AdjectiveSmaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval."The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third."
5.AdjectiveIncorporating a minor third interval above the tonic or root note, tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect."Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout."
6.AdjectiveOf or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study."The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes."
7.AdjectiveOf or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
8.AdjectiveActing as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion."The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal."
9.AdjectiveThe younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.
10.AdjectiveOf or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
11.AdjectiveHaving semibreves twice as long as a minim.
12.AdjectiveOf or related to a minority party.
13.AdjectiveHaving little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
14.AdjectiveIncluding both directed and undirected edges.
15.NounA child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges."No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.; He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony."
16.NounA lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues."He plays in the minors.; She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.; The play is considered one of his minors."
17.NounEllipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
18.NounA formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major."I got a minor in English Lit."
19.NounA person who is completing or has completed such a course of study."I became an English minor."
20.NounA determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
21.NounAlternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
22.NounEllipsis of minor term or minor premise.
23.NounEllipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
24.NounEllipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
25.NounSynonym of behind: a one-point kick.
26.NounEllipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
27.NounEllipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
28.NounAny of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
29.NounA leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
30.NounChanges rung on six bells.
31.NounAn adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
32.NounSynonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
33.NounThe younger brother of a pupil.
34.NounShort for graph minor
35.VerbUsed in a phrasal verb: minor in.