minority

CEFRB2

/maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/

noun

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The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.

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We have to stand up for minority rights.
Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.
The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.

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She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117
Chuhsiung was in the heart of Yi country. The Yi made up the largest minority in Yunnan, with over three million members as of 1990. And their biggest concentration was in the mountains around Chuhsiung.
2015, Bill Porter, “The Yi [彝族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185
The case is the latest chapter in a decade-long struggle by the nation's elite minority to crush the powerful political machine founded by Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in another coup in 2006.
2017 August 25, “Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict”, in Al Jazeera
But we have seen that one important difference between women and other minorities is that women's attitudes and self-conceptions are conditioned more largely by interaction with both minority and dominant group members
1951 October, Helen Mayer Hacker, “Women as Minority Group”, in Howard W. Odum, Katherine Jocher, editors, Social Forces, volume 30, number 1, Williams & Wilkins, →DOI, page 63

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