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How to pronounce minor in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms nonaged, underage
Derivation minority


minor children.
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Synonyms modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale
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Synonyms child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
Type of juvenile, juvenile person
Has types buster, changeling, child prodigy, yearling, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, wonder child, imp, infant prodigy, bairn, urchin, tot, sprog, street child, toddler, kiddie, kiddy, kindergartener, kindergartner, bambino, monkey, waif, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, preschooler, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, silly
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Synonyms venial
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Type of study


in collee she minored in mathematics.
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Derivation minority


a minor share of the profits.
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the minor keys.
in B flat minor.
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a minor poet.
had a minor part in the play.
a minor official.
many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen.
minor back roads.
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Jones minor.
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had minor differences.
a minor disturbance.
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suffered only minor injuries.
some minor flooding.
a minor tropical disturbance.
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Examples of minor

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At times while making the film, Okun said he felt like a minor league filmmaker.
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It's not the Taj Mahal of baseball, but, forgive me, it's minor-league baseball.
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Tallet was scheduled to throw batting practice against minor leaguers on Monday.
From the timesunion.com
McDonald is slated to pitch in a minor league game or a simulated game Saturday.
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Successful minor league teams pull out all the stops in entertaining their fans.
From the businessweek.com
Called gedogen, the approach might be translated as tolerance of minor offenses.
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Minor accidents and unexpected events create sudden power struggles with others.
From the suntimes.com
After all the wedding planning and preparation, we're down to the minor details.
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They were outshot 28-11 in the final 40 minutes thanks to seven minor penalties.
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More examples
  • Of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
  • Child: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
  • Lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
  • Inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
  • Of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
  • Not of legal age; "minor children"
  • The Miu00F1or is a river of Galicia, Spain. It is 9.9 miles (16u00A0km) long, and stretches from Or Galiu00F1eiro to the places of Ramallosa and Sabaru00EDs.
  • An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary field of study or specialization during his or her undergraduate studies. ...
  • In graph theory, an undirected graph H is called a minor of the graph G if H is isomorphic to a graph that can be obtained by zero or more edge contractions on a subgraph of G.