minor – English noun declension

English noun forms of minor

Noun: minor
Singularminor
Pluralminors

Sample Sentences

  • No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.
  • He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.
  • King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor. [1612, John Davies, A Discouerie of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Neuer Entirely Subdued..., page 88:]
  • He plays in the minors.
  • She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
  • The play is considered one of his minors.
  • Mr Gloss'em, who is a shining character in the theatrical world, at least among the minors [minor theaters] of the metropolis. [1821, Pierce Egan, Real Life in London..., volume I, page 92:]
  • I got a minor in English Lit.
  • I became an English minor.
  • ...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero... [1850, James Joseph Sylvester, London, Edinburgh, & Dublin Philosophical Magazine..., volume 37, page 366:]
  • Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r. [1986, C. W. Norman, Undergraduate Algebra, →ISBN, page 315:]
  • He... to þe menours ordre went [1447, Osbern Bokenham, Legendys of Hooly Wummen, l. 10520:]
  • And so musten oure clerkis argue whan þai aleggen for her lordeschip þe lyuynge of her patrons & sayntis, & sayen þus: "Seynt thomas & seynt hwe & seynt Swiþune wer þus lordis, & in þis þai suyd cristis lyuynge & his lore; þerfor we may lefulli be þus lordis." And I wote wel þat gabriel schal blow his horne or þai han preuyd þe mynor; þat is, þat þes seyntes or patrons in þis suyden þe lore or þe life of ihesu criste. [c. 1450, anonymous author, The Clergy May Not Hold Property, page 31:]
  • It is certain that the major leagues must depend upon the minors for their recruits. [1890 July 31, Sporting Life, Philadelphia, page 1:]
  • Penalties... First Period... all minors. [1924 December 30, Gazette, Montreal, page 14:]
  • Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor. [1903 May 16, Sporting News, Tasmania, page 4:]
  • At half-time the score was—one goal, three tries, and four minors. [1883 February 5, York Herald, page 8:]
  • Many find it easier to remember 20 for Minors, 30 for Majors and 35 for No Trump. [1927, Milton Cooper Work, Contract Bridge, page 11:]
  • Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there. [1864, Eton School Days, page 82:]

Etymology

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow. See: Latin Nouns 'minor', Latin Nouns 'minimum'.

Verbs referencing "minor"

Finnish Nouns minori.