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1
having not so great importance or rank as another
- some minor official with an exaggerated sense of his own importance
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2
of little or less value or merit
- a minor poet who is little read nowadays
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3
lacking importance
- only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment
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The first known use of minor was in 1526
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