{
    "term": "minor",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not very large, important or serious",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new plan involves widening a **minor road** through the valley."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Both the driver and the passenger suffered **minor injuries**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You may need to undergo **minor surgery**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of these youths are in prison for **minor offences**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "minor modifications/adjustments"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There may be some minor changes to the schedule."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He played a relatively **minor role** in the organization."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **minor characters** in the story are all well drawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When you drive a classic car, you expect a few minor problems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's a relatively minor matter. We can leave it till later."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a very minor operation and there is very little risk involved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A minor snag is that it's expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His only injuries were some minor scratches above his eye."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The album contains a number of delightful short pieces by minor composers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These are minor quibbles in a film that really works for me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Adverse weather had been a minor inconvenience at times."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In many ways this film is a minor miracle."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "based on a scale in which the third note is a semitone / half step higher than the second note",
            "labels": "(music)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the key of C minor"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪnə(r)/",
                "audio": "mi/minor/minor__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪnər/",
                "audio": "mi/minor/minor__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin, ‘smaller, less’; related to minuere ‘lessen’. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores (‘Lesser Brethren’), chosen by St Francis for the order."
}