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Minor vs Minority - What's the difference?

minor | minority |

Minority is a related term of minor.



As nouns the difference between minor and minority

is that minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities while minority is the state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.

As an adjective minor

is of little significance or importance.

As a verb minor

is to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

As a proper noun Minor

is {{surname|lang=en}.

minor

English

Alternative forms

* minour (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of little significance or importance.
    • The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
  • *
    • There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
  • (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
    • a minor scale.
  • (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * major

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
    • It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
  • A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  • * I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor .
  • * I became an English minor .
  • (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

    • Antonyms

    * (law) adult * major

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
  • * I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

    • Anagrams

    *

    External links

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    minority

    English

    Noun

    (minorities)
  • The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
  • * 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
    • She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son.
  • Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
    • Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.
  • Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.
  • (US) A member of an ethnic minority.
    • The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.

    Synonyms

    * (youth) childhood

    Antonyms

    * (subgroup) majority * (youth) adulthood

    Derived terms

    * majority-minority * minority government * minority group * minority leader * minority report * minority rule

    Related terms

    * minor