<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two.</li><li>not serious, important, etc.</li><li>having low rank, status, position, etc.</li><li>under the legal age of full responsibility.</li><li>of or relating to a field of study constituting a student's minor.</li><li>Music: (of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.</li><li>of or relating to the minority.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person under the legal age of full responsibility.</li><li>a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.</li><li>Education: a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, especially a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.</li><li>a subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.</li><li>Music: a minor interval, chord, scale, etc.</li><li>Mathematics: the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.</li><li>the minors, Sports: the minor leagues.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to major in sociology and minor in art history.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>