The meaning of Minors

Minors – definition

noun
A person under the age of full legal responsibility.
Usage examples:
The court would take account of the minor's wishes
Synonims:
Child Infant Youth Adolescent Teenager Boy Girl Lad Lass Schoolboy Schoolgirl Kid Kiddie
noun
A minor key, interval, or scale.
Usage examples:
Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the s…
noun
The minor leagues in baseball or american football.
Usage examples:
Salinas was one of six teams in the minors
noun
A student's subsidiary subject or course.
Usage examples:
A minor in american indian studies
noun
A minor term or premise.
Usage examples:
I prove the minor, because your father is known by you and your father is the one approaching; henc…
noun
A small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass.
Usage examples:
Minors and rustics are extremely small and are often mistaken for micro moths, especially pyralids.

verb
Short for minor suit.
Usage examples:
A bid of two no trumps shows strength in the minors
verb
Study as or qualify in a subsidiary subject at college or university.
Usage examples:
Clark had minored in animal science

adjective
Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance.
Usage examples:
She requested a number of minor alterations

adjective
(of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.
Usage examples:
Yet by bar 3, where the two basic scale-motifs are concatenated to form five notes of an a minor sc…

adjective
(following a surname in public schools) indicating the younger of two brothers.
Usage examples:
Smith minor

adjective
(of a term) occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
Usage examples:
Where p, s, and m are the major, minor, and middle terms of the syllogism.

phrase
The professional baseball and ice hockey leagues (= groups of teams who play games against each other) that play below the highest level
Usage examples:
He spent five years refining his skills in the minors., he was sent back to the minors due to his i…

Minors translation into English

Minors: translate from English into Chinese

未成年人

Minors: translate from English into Dutch

Minderjarigen

Minors: translate from English into French

Mineurs

Minors: translate from English into German

Minderjährige

Minors: translate from English into Hindi

नाबालिगों

Minors: translate from English into Italian

Minori

Minors: translate from English into Korean

미성년자

Minors: translate from English into Russian

Несовершеннолетние

Minors: translate from English into Spanish

Menores

Word origin

Middle English: from Latin, ‘smaller, less’; related to minuere ‘lessen’. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores (‘Lesser Brethren’), chos

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Minors – similar words

minoration

noun
= minorization .

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minor

adjective
Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance.
Usage examples:
She requested a number of minor alterations

noun
A person under the age of full legal responsibility.
Usage examples:
The court would take account of the minor's wishes

verb
Short for minor suit.
Usage examples:
A bid of two no trumps shows strength in the minors

All meanings and translations of Minor

Minors synonims

adolescent

adjective
(of a young person) in the process of developing from a child into an adult.
Usage examples:
Many parents find it hard to understand their adolescent children

noun
An adolescent boy or girl.
Usage examples:
The books are aimed at children and adolescents

adjective
Between the ages of a child and an adult
Usage examples:
The two adolescent boys made their mother very tired., [ c ] he had an unhappy adolescence., i teac…

All meanings and translations of Adolescent

boy

noun
A male child or youth.
Usage examples:
A four-year-old boy

exclamation
Used to express strong feelings, especially of excitement or admiration.
Usage examples:
Oh boy, that's wonderful!

All meanings and translations of Boy

child

noun
A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
Usage examples:
She'd been playing tennis since she was a child

noun
A person from the time of birth until he or she is an adult, or a son or daughter of any age
Usage examples:
Jan has a three-year-old child and two school-age children., now in their 60s, jerome and sally hav…

All meanings and translations of Child

girl

noun
A female child.
Usage examples:
A six-year-old girl

noun
A female child or, more generally, a female of any age
Usage examples:
Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

All meanings and translations of Girl

infant

noun
A very young child or baby.
Usage examples:
Healthy infants

All meanings and translations of Infant

kid

kɪd

noun
A child or young person.
Usage examples:
She collected the kids from school

verb
(of a goat) give birth.
Usage examples:
Milk fever usually occurs in heavy milkers shortly after kidding

verb
Deceive (someone) in a playful way; tease.
Usage examples:
You're kidding me!

All meanings and translations of Kid

kiddie

noun
A young child.
Usage examples:
I think he gave very fair reasons and i fully understand them, i've got two young kiddies myself.

noun
A young child
Usage examples:
We have soda for the kiddies.

All meanings and translations of Kiddie

lad

noun
A boy or young man (often as a form of address).
Usage examples:
Come in, lad, and shut the door

noun
A boy or young man

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lass

noun
A girl or young woman.
Usage examples:
He married a lass from yorkshire

All meanings and translations of Lass

schoolboy

noun
A boy attending school.
Usage examples:
Schoolboy cricketers

noun
A boy who goes to school
Usage examples:
He recalled that he had a schoolboy crush on her (= liked her very much when he was a schoolboy).

All meanings and translations of Schoolboy

schoolgirl

noun
A girl attending school.
Usage examples:
If you're not among the 1,000 english and french private schoolgirls who attend classes at villa ma…

noun
A girl who goes to school

All meanings and translations of Schoolgirl

teenager

noun
A person aged between 13 and 19 years.
Usage examples:
As a teenager she discovered she had a talent for dance

noun
A person who is 13 through 19 years old
Usage examples:
They have two teenage sons.

All meanings and translations of Teenager

youth

noun
The period between childhood and adult age.
Usage examples:
He had been a keen sportsman in his youth

All meanings and translations of Youth

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