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| mi·nor [ mnər ] |
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1. small: relatively small in quantity, size, or degree
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2. low in rank: relatively low in rank or importance
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3. low in severity: relatively low in severity or danger
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4. music describes musical scale: describes a musical scale that has a semitone interval between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and sometimes seventh and eighth notes
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5. music describes musical interval: describes a musical interval that is a semitone less than a major interval
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6. music describes musical key: describes a musical key that is based on a minor scale
  in B minor
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7. law not legally adult: younger than the legal age of adulthood
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8. education secondary: secondary to the major course of study
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noun (plural mi·nors) |
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1. law somebody not legally adult: somebody who is not yet legally an adult
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2. music musical key or harmony: a key or harmony based on a musical scale whose third and, usually, sixth and seventh notes are lower by a semitone than those in the major scale
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3. education secondary subject: a second specialization in higher education that requires fewer courses than a major
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4. education somebody following minor course: a student who takes a secondary program of study
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intransitive verb (past and past participle mi·nored, present participle mi·nor·ing, 3rd person present singular mi·nors) |
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study secondary subject: to have a second specialization in higher education, in addition to a major specialization
She minors in Spanish.
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| [13th century. < Latin, "lesser"] |
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