minor
♦ mi|nor /m'aɪnər/ (minors minoring minored)
1 [ADJ]
You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
≠ major
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health.
Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
≠ major
3 [ADJ] n ADJ, ADJ n
In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first.
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
≠ major
4 [N-COUNT]
A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
5 [N-COUNT] oft poss N
At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major.
≠ major
6 [N-COUNT] n N
At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject.
≠ major
7 [VERB] V in n
If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject.
I'm minoring in computer science.
≠ major
1 [ADJ]
You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
≠ major
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health.
Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
≠ major
3 [ADJ] n ADJ, ADJ n
In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first.
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
≠ major
4 [N-COUNT]
A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
5 [N-COUNT] oft poss N
At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major.
≠ major
6 [N-COUNT] n N
At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject.
≠ major
7 [VERB] V in n
If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject.
I'm minoring in computer science.
≠ major