[
  {
    "word": "minor",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8ma\u026an\u025a/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8ma\u026an\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/minor-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1769999",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I became an English minor."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Determinant of a square submatrix",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "underage"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "adult",
          "major"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Of little significance or importance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a minor scale"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "major"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minor"
    ]
  }
]