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nounany age prior to the legal age
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nouna group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a parttype of:
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"when the vote was taken they were in the minority" "he held a minority position"nounbeing or relating to the smaller in number of two partsOpposite:
Definition that contains minority
- maya an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
- exclusive excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority
- ghetto a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
- regent someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
- pathan an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan
- segregation a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- maori an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand
- separatism a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- menshevik a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
- berbers an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa