minority

Other forms of minority

plural

minorities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about minority

What does minority mean?

minority means "a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in minority?

minority has 4 syllables: mi-no-ri-ty. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /maɪˈnɔɹəti/.

What is another word for minority?

Close synonyms include nonage. 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.

What is the opposite of minority?

The recorded antonyms are majority, majority.

Is minority a common word?

minority is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.