1. lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
2. not serious, important, etc.: a minor wound; a minor role.
3. having low rank, status, position, etc.: a minor official.
4. under the legal age of full responsibility.
5. of or relating to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
6. Music.
• (of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.
• (of a chord) having a minor third between the root and the note next above it.
7. of or relating to the minority.
8. (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing: Jackson Minor sits over here.

9. a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
10. a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
11. Education.
• a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, especially a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.
• a subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
12. a minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
13. the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
14. Friar Minor.
15. the minor leagues.

16. to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to major in sociology and minor in art history.

1. a male given name.

1. lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree
2. of or relating to the minority
3. below the age of legal majority
4. music
• (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor)
• (of a key) based on the minor scale
• denoting a specified key based on the minor scale
• (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major
• (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root
• (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh
5. (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition
6. of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student
7. the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school
8. of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells

9. a person or thing that is lesser or secondary
10. a person below the age of legal majority
11. a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major
12. a minor key, chord, mode, or scale
13. a minor term or premise
14. maths
• a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removing the row and column containing that element
• the number equal to this reduced determinant
15. (capital) another name for Minorite

16. to take a minor

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