Noun

(en noun)

A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.

An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

* Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)

And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}

(Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.

Noun

(en noun)

A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng

, title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}

A sycophantic follower.

(obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.

* Sylvester

God's disciple and his dearest minion

* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens , IV-III

Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?

(obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

(typography, uncountable) A size of type smaller than brevier but larger than nonpareil, roughly equivalent to 7pt.

(Burton)