minority

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
noun being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
noun any age prior to the legal age

From Late Middle English minoritie, from Middle French minorité, and its source Late Latin minōritās, from Latin minor. Morphologically minor + -ity.

Dickie belonged to the minority. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet
Such men were luckily in the minority. — My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
Why does it not cherish its wise minority? — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

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