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minor

English

  1. 🔊 relatively moderate, limited, or small
    “a small business”
  2. 🔊 inferior in number or size or amount
    “a minor share of the profits”
  3. 🔊 lesser in scope or effect
    “had minor differences”
  4. 🔊 not of legal age
    “minor children”
  5. 🔊 (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
    “the minor keys”
  6. 🔊 of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
  7. 🔊 of lesser importance or stature or rank
    “a minor poet”
  8. 🔊 of lesser seriousness or danger
    “suffered only minor injuries”
  9. 🔊 warranting only temporal punishment
    “venial sin”
  10. 🔊 a young person of either sex
    “she writes books for children”
  11. 🔊 have as one's secondary field of study
    “in collee she minored in mathematics”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 menor minor
  2. 🔊 leve minor, trivial

Similar words

child kid youngster shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling modest small small-scale pocket-size pocket-sized nonaged underage venial academic specialty adolescent area average baby