minors

1. 1.

   a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)

   Synonymsminor leaguebush league

   Broaderleague

   baseball

Other forms of minors

plural

minorses·

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 minors

What does minors mean?

minors means "a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)".

How many syllables are in minors?

minors has 2 syllables: mi-nors. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪnɚz/.

What is another word for minors?

Close synonyms include minor league, bush league. 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 minors a common word?

minors 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.