Phrase Hound found 124 phrases and 20 compound words that contain minor. The most common are listed below. Open minor in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 124
- Asia MinorA large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.
- minor leagueAn association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport.
- Minor edits
- C minora minor key with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭/B
- Ursa MinorA circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism of the Little Dipper and, as part of it, the northern pole star Polaris, as well as Kochab.
- E minora minor key with the notes E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D
- B minora minor key with the notes B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A
- G minora minor key with the notes G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, F
- minor childrenplural of minor child: A child below the age of majority, consent, &c.
- D minorA minor key with the notes D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C.
- F minora minor key with the notes F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭
- minor keyA musical key based upon a minor scale.
- Lithuania MinorA historically Lithuanian-speaking ethnographic region of Eastern Europe, now politically mostly in the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia with small parts in Lithuania and Poland; now often taken to refer only to the rump portion in Lithuania.
- minor childA child below the age of majority, consent, &c.
- minor planetAn astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is not a planet or a comet.
- minor scaleAny diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad.
- minor thirdA musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 6:5, spanning two degrees of the diatonic scale.
- Leo MinorA spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a small lion. It lies north of the constellation Leo and south of Ursa Major.
- minor thing
- minor orderOne of the orders of the Catholic or Orthodox Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); especially (Catholicism, historical) the order of porter, lector, exorcist, or acolyte.
- Minor edit
- minor pieceA bishop or a knight.
- minor celebrityA celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous.
- minor axisThe shortest diameter of an ellipse, which bisects the major axis at a right angle.
- minor ordersplural of minor order: One of the orders of the Catholic or Orthodox Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); especially (Catholicism, historical) the order of porter, lector, exorcist, or acolyte.
Compound words 20
- minorityThe state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- MinoressSynonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
- MinoriteSynonym of Franciscan: a friar of the Order of Friars Minor.
- minoriseAlternative form of minorize: To be or become a lower bound
- minorishSomewhat minor; minor to an extent.
- semiminorDescribing each of the two segments of the minor axis of a conic section at both sides of the center of the conic section.
- minorizeTo be or become a lower bound
- minorshipThe state or quality of being a minor.
- nonminorNot minor; significant.
- subminorAn interval smaller in size than a minor interval but larger than the major interval preceding it.