minors

noun

  1. 1

    A person who is below the 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.
  2. 2

    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 became an English minor.
  3. 3

    Determinant of a square submatrix

  4. 4

    (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).

  5. 5

    A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

  6. 6

    The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

  7. 7

    (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

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verb

  1. 1

    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.

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