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{
"term": "minor",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not very large, important or serious",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The new plan involves widening a **minor road** through the valley."
},
{
"text": "Both the driver and the passenger suffered **minor injuries**."
},
{
"text": "You may need to undergo **minor surgery**."
},
{
"text": "Most of these youths are in prison for **minor offences**."
},
{
"text": "minor modifications/adjustments"
},
{
"text": "There may be some minor changes to the schedule."
},
{
"text": "He played a relatively **minor role** in the organization."
},
{
"text": "The **minor characters** in the story are all well drawn."
},
{
"text": "When you drive a classic car, you expect a few minor problems."
},
{
"text": "That's a relatively minor matter. We can leave it till later."
},
{
"text": "This is a very minor operation and there is very little risk involved."
},
{
"text": "A minor snag is that it's expensive."
},
{
"text": "His only injuries were some minor scratches above his eye."
},
{
"text": "Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border."
},
{
"text": "The album contains a number of delightful short pieces by minor composers."
},
{
"text": "The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle."
},
{
"text": "These are minor quibbles in a film that really works for me."
},
{
"text": "Adverse weather had been a minor inconvenience at times."
},
{
"text": "In many ways this film is a minor miracle."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "based on a scale in which the third note is a semitone / half step higher than the second note",
"labels": "(music)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the key of C minor"
}
],
"topics": ["Music"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪnə(r)/",
"audio": "mi/minor/minor__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪnər/",
"audio": "mi/minor/minor__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin, ‘smaller, less’; related to minuere ‘lessen’. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores (‘Lesser Brethren’), chosen by St Francis for the order."
}