minor meaning
EN
[maɪnə] [-aɪnə(ɹ)] 
US WMinor
- Minor may refer to:
- Minor (law), a person under the age of majority or another age restriction
- Minor (music), one class of chord, interval, key, or scale
- Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
EN Minor 
- NounPLminors
- A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- VerbSGminorsPRminoringPT, PPminored
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- AdjectiveCOMmore minorSUPmost minor
- Of little significance or importance.
- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered.
- a minor scale.
- (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
- Of little significance or importance.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- These are not minor issues because the regional extinctions of small mammals are a widespread phenomenon in southern South America and have involved several sigmodontine and caviomorph rodent species.
- Novitzky noted that Rose had recently pleaded guilty to federal charges of distributing gamma butyrolactone, or GBL, a drug sometimes sold as a steroid adjunct, to minor league players.
- The seafloor there is composed of scoracious lava decorated with small sponge-crinoid mounds and featuring minor accumulations of sandy mud in small depressions [19 ].
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of minor in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "minor" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.