minor role

1. 1.

   a small role

   Synonymsbit part

   Broadercharacter

   Narrowersoubrette

Questions about minor role

What does minor role mean?

minor role means "a small role".

What is another word for minor role?

Close synonyms include bit part. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minor role a common word?

minor role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.