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Minor vs Teenage - What's the difference?

minor | teenage |

As adjectives the difference between minor and teenage

is that minor is of little significance or importance while teenage is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

As nouns the difference between minor and teenage

is that minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities while teenage is brushwood for fences and hedges.

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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    teenage

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested circa 1700: teen (Kentish variant of tine: “enclose within a wattle fence”) (suffix forming abstract nouns).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Brushwood for fences and hedges.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    References
    * “ ?teenage n.''¹]” defined as a derived term of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50248204 teen, ''v.''²]”, listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1921: .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
    Derived terms
    * (l) English terms with multiple etymologies