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minor

adj · name · noun · verb · 46 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪnə/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: miner
  • homophone: mynah (non-rhotic)
  • rhymes with -aɪnə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: M AY1 N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • of minor importance
  • a minor poet

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Underage, not having reached legal majority.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

Examples

  • The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, sometimes

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

  • She suffered a minor injury.
  • There was minor bruising.
  • He has a minor case of puppy love.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Examples

  • The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Examples

  • Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US

Topics: education

Examples

  • The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences

Examples

  • The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

adj

Meaning 10

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

adj

Meaning 11

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

adj

Meaning 12

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Of or related to a minority party.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

adj

Meaning 13

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

adj

Meaning 14

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Including both directed and undirected edges.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

name

Meaning 15

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • He plays in the minors.
  • She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
  • The play is considered one of his minors.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US

Topics: education

Examples

  • I got a minor in English Lit.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US, uncommon

Topics: education

Examples

  • I became an English minor.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

noun

Meaning 21

A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

noun

Meaning 22

Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

Topics: Catholicism, Christianity

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

noun

Meaning 23

Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

noun

Meaning 24

Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

noun

Meaning 25

Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

26

noun

Meaning 26

Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australian

Topics: ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: behind

Antonyms: none provided

27

noun

Meaning 27

Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical

Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

28

noun

Meaning 28

Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: bridge, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

29

noun

Meaning 29

Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

30

noun

Meaning 30

A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

31

noun

Meaning 31

Changes rung on six bells.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: campanology, history, human-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

32

noun

Meaning 32

An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Qualifier: Scots law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

33

noun

Meaning 33

Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: subtrahend

Antonyms: none provided

34

noun

Meaning 34

The younger brother of a pupil.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, obsolete, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

35

noun

Meaning 35

Short for graph minor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

36

verb

Meaning 36

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

37

adjective

Meaning 37

inferior in number or size or amount

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a minor share of the profits
  • Ursa Minor

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

38

adjective

Meaning 38

lesser in scope or effect

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • had minor differences
  • a minor disturbance

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

39

adjective

Meaning 39

not of legal age

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • minor children

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nonaged, underage

Antonyms: major

40

adjective

Meaning 40

of a scale or mode

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the minor keys
  • in B flat minor

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

41

adjective

Meaning 41

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

42

adjective

Meaning 42

of lesser importance or stature or rank

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a minor poet
  • had a minor part in the play
  • a minor official
  • many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen
  • minor back roads

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

43

adjective

Meaning 43

of lesser seriousness or danger

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • suffered only minor injuries
  • some minor flooding
  • a minor tropical disturbance

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: major

44

adjective satellite

Meaning 44

limited in size or scope

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a small business
  • a newspaper with a modest circulation
  • small-scale plans
  • a pocket-size country

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized

Antonyms: none provided

45

adjective satellite

Meaning 45

warranting only temporal punishment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • venial sin

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: venial

Antonyms: none provided

46

noun

Meaning 46

a young person of either sex

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she writes books for children
  • they're just kids
  • `tiddler' is a British term for youngster

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: child, kid, youngster, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: juvenile, juvenile person

Narrower terms: bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, kiddy, orphan, peanut, pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny, poster child, preschooler, kindergartner, kindergartener, silly, sprog, toddler, yearling, tot, bambino, urchin, waif, street child

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

147 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: маловажен (malovažen) — lesser in importance
  • Bulgarian: второстепенен (vtorostepenen) — lesser in importance
  • Czech: vedlejší — lesser in importance
  • Danish: ubetydelig — lesser in importance
  • Dutch: minderjarig — lesser in importance
  • Dutch: licht — lesser in importance
  • Dutch: gering — lesser in importance
  • Dutch: onbelangrijk — lesser in importance
  • Esperanto: negrava — lesser in importance
  • Finnish: vähäinen — lesser in importance
  • Finnish: vähämerkityksinen — lesser in importance
  • French: mineur — lesser in importance
  • Friulian: minôr — lesser in importance
  • German: gering — lesser in importance
  • German: geringfügig — lesser in importance
  • German: klein — lesser in importance
  • German: unbedeutend — lesser in importance
  • German: untergeordnet — lesser in importance
  • German: nachgeordnet — lesser in importance
  • Greek: ελάσσων (elásson) — lesser in importance
  • Greek: ασήμαντος (asímantos) — lesser in importance
  • Greek: ήσσων (ísson) — lesser in importance
  • Hungarian: jelentéktelen — lesser in importance
  • Hungarian: lényegtelen — lesser in importance
  • Hungarian: másodlagos — lesser in importance
  • Hungarian: csekély — lesser in importance
  • Hungarian: mellékes — lesser in importance
  • Italian: minore — lesser in importance
  • Polish: pomniejszy — lesser in importance
  • Polish: drugorzędny — lesser in importance
  • Polish: poboczny — lesser in importance
  • Portuguese: menor — lesser in importance
  • Russian: незначи́тельный (neznačítelʹnyj) — lesser in importance
  • Russian: второстепе́нный (vtorostepénnyj) — lesser in importance
  • Scots: smaa — lesser in importance
  • Spanish: menor — lesser in importance
  • Swedish: smärre — lesser in importance
  • Turkish: ikincil — lesser in importance
  • Turkish: tâlî — lesser in importance
  • Ukrainian: незначни́й (neznačnýj) — lesser in importance
  • Ukrainian: другоря́дний (druhorjádnyj) — lesser in importance
  • Ukrainian: дрібни́й (dribnýj) — lesser in importance
  • Afrikaans: mineur — musical scale with a minor third
  • Bulgarian: минорен (minoren) — musical scale with a minor third
  • Czech: mollový — musical scale with a minor third
  • Czech: moll — musical scale with a minor third
  • Danish: mol — musical scale with a minor third
  • Finnish: molli — musical scale with a minor third
  • French: mineur — musical scale with a minor third
  • German: moll — musical scale with a minor third
  • Greek: ελάσσων (elásson) — musical scale with a minor third
  • Greek: μινόρε (minóre) — musical scale with a minor third
  • Hungarian: moll — musical scale with a minor third
  • Italian: minore — musical scale with a minor third
  • Māori: tāheke — musical scale with a minor third
  • Persian: مینور (minor) — musical scale with a minor third
  • Polish: molowy — musical scale with a minor third
  • Portuguese: menor — musical scale with a minor third
  • Russian: мино́рный (minórnyj) — musical scale with a minor third
  • Turkish: minör — musical scale with a minor third
  • Czech: malý — smaller by a semitone
  • Greek: μικρή (mikrí) — smaller by a semitone
  • Hungarian: kis — smaller by a semitone
  • Russian: ма́лый (mályj) — smaller by a semitone
  • Afrikaans: minderjarige — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Armenian: անչափահաս (ančʻapʻahas) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Azerbaijani: azyaşlı — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Belarusian: непаўнале́тні (njepawnaljétni) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Belarusian: малале́тні (malaljétni) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Bengali: নাবালক (nabalok) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Bengali: অপ্রাপ্তবয়স্ক (opraptoboẏosko) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Bulgarian: непълноле́тен (nepǎlnoléten) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Bulgarian: малоле́тен (maloléten) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Catalan: menor — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Catalan: menor d'etat — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Chinese Mandarin: 未成年人 (wèichéngniánrén) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Chinese Mandarin: 未成年者 (wèichéngniánzhě) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Czech: nezletilý — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Danish: mindreårig — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Dutch: minderjarige — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Esperanto: neplenaĝulo — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Finnish: alaikäinen — someone below the legal age of majority
  • French: mineur — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Friulian: minôr — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Galician: menor — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Galician: menor de idade — someone below the legal age of majority
  • German: Minderjähriger — someone below the legal age of majority
  • German: Minderjährige — someone below the legal age of majority
  • German: minderjährige Person — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hebrew: קָטִין (katín) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hebrew: קְטִינָה (k'tiná) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hindi: अवयस्क (avayask) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hindi: किशोर (kiśor) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hindi: नाबालिग़ (nābāliġ) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Hungarian: kiskorú — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Indonesian: anak — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Irish: mionaoiseach — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Italian: minore — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Japanese: 未成年者 (miseinensha) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Korean: 미성년자 (miseongnyeonja) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Ladin: mender — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Latvian: nepilngadīgs — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Lithuanian: nepilnametis — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Macedonian: малолетен (maloleten) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Occitan: menor — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Persian: کسی که زیر سن قانونی است — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: nieletni — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: nieletnia — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: niepełnoletni — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: niepełnoletnia — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: małoletni — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: małoletnia — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: małolat — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Polish: małolata — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Portuguese: menor — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Russian: несовершенноле́тний (nesoveršennolétnij) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Russian: малоле́тний (malolétnij) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Slovak: neplnoletý — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Spanish: menor — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Spanish: menor de edad — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Swedish: underårig — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Tagalog: menor de edad — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Thai: ผู้เยาว์ (pûu-yao) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Turkish: küçük — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Turkish: rüşte ermemiş — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Turkish: reşit olmayan — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Turkish: ergin olmayan — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Ukrainian: неповнолі́тній (nepovnolítnij) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Ukrainian: малолі́тній (malolítnij) — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Welsh: plentyn dan oed — someone below the legal age of majority
  • Afrikaans: byvak — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Afrikaans: keusevak — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輔修 /辅修 (fǔxiū) — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Chinese Mandarin: 副修 (fùxiū) — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輔系 /辅系 (fǔxì) — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Danish: bifag — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Dutch: bijvak — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Finnish: sivuaine — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Finnish: sivuaineopiskelija — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • German: Nebenfach — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Russian: непро́фильный предме́т (neprófilʹnyj predmét) — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Spanish: minor — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Spanish: carrera menor (académica) — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Tagalog: kalit-an — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Turkish: yardımcı — subject of secondary undergraduate study
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輔修 /辅修 (fǔxiū) — verb
  • Finnish: suorittaa sivuaine — verb
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