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/maɪnˈɔrəti/ /mənˈɔrəti/ Listen

noun

Minority n. (pl. minorities)

The state of being a minor, or under age.

State of being less or small. (Obs.)

The smaller number; opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

Those members of a legislature that belong to the political party which is in the minority in that institution; as, the bill will pass even if the minority are strongly opposed.

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Etymology of 'Minority'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Minority" Quotes from Famous Books

... the floor of the House he discovers that he is merely a unit in the majority or the minority. Nobody asks his advice about anything. The tally clerk calls his name in a careless manner. He cannot catch the speaker's eye. He bobs up half a dozen times in the first hour with intent to make a motion about something and sinks ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... If men meet and talk over a difficulty, there is a probability of men's understanding each other's motives, and thus preserving charity. If one-twentieth part of a diocese insists upon certain observances which nineteen-twentieths repudiate, it seems clear that the very small minority is put out of court. Yet how often the small minority contains more salt than the ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... agency are indisputably one, binding either a dissentient minority or the subject body, in a manner that nothing but the recognition of the doctrine of national personality can justify. National honour and good faith are words in every one's mouth. How do they less imply a personality in nations than the duty towards God, for which we now contend? They are ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... shall be delighted to see him too. We knew him many years ago, during your minority, when he used to visit Burleigh two ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... spoken correctly. This fact is a warning to the judge in such cases carefully to listen to the individual opinion and to consider that it is very likely to deserve study just because it is so significantly in the minority. ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

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