A minor

Noun

Meaning

(music) The minor key with A as its tonic, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.

(music) The minor chord with a root of A.

(music) the minor key with A as its tonic

(music) the minor chord with a root of A

Alternative names

A-minor

Examples

Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people. John Climacus

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. Angela Carter

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