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1. Of lesser importance or stature or rank
   "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
    
2. Lesser in scope or effect
   "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
    
3. Inferior in number or size or amount
   "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
    
4. Of a scale or mode
   "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
    
5. Not of legal age
   "minor children"
   - nonaged, underage
    
6. Of lesser seriousness or danger
   "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
    
7. Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
    
8. [Brit] Of the younger of two boys with the same family name
   "Jones minor"
    
9. Warranting only temporal punishment
   - venial
    
10. Limited in size or scope
    - modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized

1. A young person of either sex
   - child, kid, youngster, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler [Brit], tike, tyke, fry, nestling, wean [UK, Ireland]

Sounds like: miner, mynah

Derived forms: minors

See also: insignificant, junior, limited, minority, pardonable, peanut, secondary

Type of: juvenile, juvenile person

Antonym: major

Encyclopedia: Minor Minor, AL Minor, Alabama