Definition of Minor

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Definition of Minor

Minor

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.

The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

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Minor Quotations

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
Harry Houdini

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Alicia Keys

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard

Minor Translations

minor in French is insignifiant, petiot, mineur
minor in Italian is insignificante
minor in Spanish is menor
minor in Swedish is moll, mindre

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