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minor

noun

1 minor

A young person of either sex.

synonyms: child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke ... show more.

Roget 129: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.    child, bairn [Scot.], ... show more

Dutch: jongere, jongeling, minderjarige, ding, kind
Polish: dziecko, dziecię

verb

1 minor

Have as one's secondary field of study.

adjective

1 minor

Of lesser importance or stature or rank.

2 minor

Lesser in scope or effect.

3 minor

Inferior in number or size or amount.

Polish: mniejszościowy

4 minor

of a scale or mode Having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees.

Polish: minorowy, mollowy, molowy

5 minor

Not of legal age:
— Minor children.

synonyms: nonaged, underage.

6 minor

Of lesser seriousness or danger.

7 minor

Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization.

8 minor

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

9 minor

Warranting only temporal punishment.

synonym: venial.

10 minor

Relatively moderate, limited, or small.

synonyms: modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale.

Roget 34: inferior, smaller; small etc. 32; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate ... show more

Polish: nieduży, nieliczny, mały, niewielki


Moby thesaurus: academic specialty, adolescent, area, average, baby, back-burner, boy, budding, callow, casual, child, classical education, common, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, demeaning, dependent, dewy ... show more.

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