minority
minority is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.State of being less or small. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
- 2.The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- age
- and
- any
- babyhood
- back
- balance
- beardless
- become
- below
- between
- bloom
- bottom
- boyhood
- budding
- callow
- candle
- childhood
- come
- commonalty
- contract
- contracted
- cradle
- cull
- decimate
- decimation
- decrease
- deficiency
- deficient
- diminish
- disadvantage
- ebb
- eliminate
- elimination
- eradication
- exiguity
- exiguous
- fall
- far
- few
- fewness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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