adj
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
of minor importance
a minor poet
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
She suffered a minor injury.
There was minor bruising.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.
...a certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism...
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
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 mode of D is tender.
noun
A 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.
A 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.
Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
I got a minor in English Lit.
A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
I became an English minor.
verb
Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.