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Moderateminor
The correct spelling is minor.
How to pronounce minor
/ˈmaɪnɚ/
nounIPA: /ˈmaɪnɚ/
Say it like: Min-or
The correct spelling is minor. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. For example: "It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen."
Usage Examples
“It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.”
“I became an English minor.”
“I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- 2.A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- 3.Determinant of a square submatrix
- 4.(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- 5.A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
verb
- 1.To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
adjective
- 1.Of little significance or importance.
- 2.Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
- 3.Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
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