minor

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Positive
minor

Comparative
more minor

Superlative
most minor

  1. A minor change, problem, injury, etc. is not very important.
    We still have to make a few minor changes, but it's mostly done.
  2. (music) A minor musical scale is a scale that starts two notes before the major scale. Music in a minor scale often sounds sad.
    That music could be A minor or C major.

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Singular
minor

Plural
minors

  1. (countable) A minor is a person who is younger than the legal age of adulthood.
    In Indiana, a person younger than 18 years old is considered a minor.
  2. (countable) A minor is a person below a legal age of privilege, right or responsibility, such as the legal drinking age or legal age for sexual activity.
    The high school teacher was convicted of a crime for having sex with a minor.
    The bar got in trouble for serving alcohol to a minor.
  3. A minor is a subject area that is not the main study of a student at a college or university, but is their second most important focus.
    I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.

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Plain form
minor

Third-person singular
minors

Past tense
minored

Past participle
minored

Present participle
minoring

  1. Minor means to minor in a subject at a college or university.
    I had so many credit hours of English that I decided to minor in it.