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say it: mi-nyoo-ET
minuet is a noun meaning "a stately court dance in the 17th century". It is pronounced /mɪˌnjuˈɛt/ — mi-nyoo-ET. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a stately court dance in the 17th century
a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for minuet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.