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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, youngster ... show more.
Roget 129:
infant,
babe,
baby,
babe in arms;
nurseling,
suckling,
yearling,
weanling;
papoose,
bambino;
kid;
vagitus.
child,
bairn [Scot.],
little one,
brat,
chit,
pickaninny,
urchin;
bantling,
bratling†;
elf.
youth,
boy,
lad,
stripling,
youngster,
youngun,
younker†,
callant†,
whipster†,
whippersnapper,
whiffet [U.S.],
schoolboy,
hobbledehoy,
hopeful,
cadet,
minor,
master.
scion;
sap,
seedling;
tendril,
olive branch,
nestling,
chicken,
larva,
chrysalis,
tadpole,
whelp,
cub,
pullet,
fry,
callow;
codlin, codling;
foetus,
calf,
colt,
pup,
foal,
kitten;
lamb,
lambkin†;
aurelia†,
caterpillar,
cocoon,
nymph,
nympha†,
orphan,
pupa,
staddle†.
girl;
lass,
lassie;
wench,
miss,
damsel,
demoiselle;
maid,
maiden;
virgin;
hoyden.
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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
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
etc.
(imperfect)
651;
sub,
subaltern;
thrown into the shade;
weighed in the balance and found wanting;
not fit to hold a candle to,
can't hold a candle to.
least,
smallest
etc.
(little)
(small)
etc.
193;
lowest.
diminished
etc.
(decreased)
36;
reduced
etc.
(contracted)
195;
unimportant
etc.
643.
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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, dinky, disadvantaged, discipline, dispensable, dominant, elective, fair, field, fledgling, general education, general studies, girl, green, growing, hopeful, humanities, humble, immaterial, immature, impubic, in the shade, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, inessential, inexperienced, infant, inferior, infra dig, ingenuous, innocent, insignificant, intact, irrelevant, juicy, junior, juvenal, juvenile, key, key signature, keynote, lad, laddie, lass, lassie, less, lesser, liberal arts, light, little, low, lower, lowly, major, major key, mediant, mediocre, medium, middling, minute, modest, naive, negligible, new-fledged, nonessential, not vital, obscure, one-horse, ordinary, paltry, pedal point, petit, petty, picayune, piddling, proseminar, pubescent, quadrivium, raw, refresher course, ripening, sapling, sappy, schoolboy, schoolgirl, scientific education, second rank, second string, second-rate, secondary, seminar, servile, shoestring, slight, slip, small, small-beer, small-fry, small-time, smaller, specialty, sprig, stripling, study, sub, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdominant, subject, submediant, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, subtonic, supertonic, technical, technical education, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tender, third rank, third string, tonality, tonic, tonic key, trifling, trivial, trivium, two-bit, unadult, underage, underprivileged, undeveloped, undistinguished, unessential, unfledged, unformed, unimportant, unimpressive, unlicked, unmellowed, unnoteworthy, unnoticeable, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, vulgar, ward, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth ... show more.
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