minor, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

minor (minors plural & 3rd person present) (minoring present participle) (minored past tense & past participle )

1 adj You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation., (Antonym: major) She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...

2 adj A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health., (Antonym: major) Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...

3 adj In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first., (Antonym: major) ...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.

4 n-count A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.

5 n-count At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major., (Antonym: major)

6 n-count At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject., (Antonym: major)

7 verb If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject., (Antonym: major) I'm minoring in computer science. V in n