minor

Minor is defined as something that is smaller or less important.

(adjective)

An example of something minor is a cut that isn’t deep.

The definition of a minor is someone young who has not acquired all of their legal rights.

(noun)

An example of a minor is someone who is not yet 21 years old and can’t purchase alcohol.

Minor means your secondary educational focus during college.

(noun)

An example of a minor is when you’re studying philosophy but are also studying physics.

See minor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

1. lesser in size, amount, number, or extent
2. lesser in importance or rank
under full legal age (usually either eighteen or twenty-one years)
Archaic constituting the minority: said of a party, etc.
sad; melancholy; plaintive: from the identification in Occidental music of the minor key with such qualities
☆ Educ. designating or of a field of study in which students specialize, but less so than in their major
Music
1. designating an imperfect interval smaller than the corresponding major interval by a semitone
2. characterized by minor intervals, scales, etc.: the minor key
3. designating a triad having a minor third
4. based on the scale pattern of the minor mode

Origin: ME menour < L minor < IE *minu-, small < base *mei-, to lessen > Gr meiōn, less, ON minni, smaller

intransitive verb

☆ Educ. to make some subject one's minor field of study: to minor in art

noun

See minor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.
Lesser in importance, rank, or stature: a minor politician.
Lesser in seriousness or danger: a minor injury.
Law Being under legal age; not yet a legal adult.
Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.
Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.
Logic Dealing with a more restricted category.
Music
a. Relating to or being a minor scale.
b. Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.
c. Based on a minor scale: a minor key.

noun

One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.
Law One who has not reached full legal age.
a. A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.
b. One studying in a secondary area of specialization: She is a physics minor.
Logic
a. A minor premise.
b. A minor term.
Music A minor key, scale, or interval.
minors Sports The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.