| noun | a young person of either sex “she writes books for children” |
| adjective | of lesser importance or stature or rank “a minor poet” |
| adjective | lesser in scope or effect “had minor differences” |
| adjective | inferior in number or size or amount “a minor share of the profits” |
| adjective | of a scale or mode “the minor keys” |
| adjective | not of legal age “minor children” |
| adjective | of lesser seriousness or danger “suffered only minor injuries” |
| adjective | of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization |
| adjective | of the younger of two boys with the same family name “Jones minor” |
| adjective | warranting only temporal punishment “venial sin” |
| adjective | limited in size or scope “a small business” |
| childly | adjective | befitting a young child |
| childhood | noun | the time of person's life when they are a child |
| minority | noun | being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts |
| smallness | noun | the property of having a relatively small size |