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mi·nor·i·ty

minority

 
 
pronunciation:
mih nawr ih ti [or] maI nawr ih ti [or] mih nor ih ti [or] maI nor ih ti
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part of speech: noun
inflections: minorities
definition 1: A minority is less than half of a whole group of people or things. If a minority of a school's students sign up for sports, it means that less than half of them sign up.
The plan failed because only a minority of the citizens voted for it.Most birds can fly, but there is a small minority that cannot fly.
antonyms:
majority
similar words:
handful
definition 2: A minority is a particular group within a country who make up less than half of the whole population of that country and also share something in common that is different from the people in the larger group, such as their religion, their language, or where their families came from in the past.
Indians were the only people living in America before people started to come from Europe about 500 years ago. Now Indians are one of the minorities. Some of the other minorities in America are Asian Americans, African Americans, and people whose families came from Central and South America.
similar words:
race
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