English words for 'Relating to a minority'
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noun
- A large minority group that comprises a significant percentage of the population or most of the minority population.
- (more generally) A minority group that wields disproportionate power.
- Multiple minority groups, seen as a single coalition or group.
- A voting block which, although it has less than 50% of the vote, has sufficient numbers to prevent any other group from forming a supermajority.
- A member of a minority group who has extraordinary abilities, often one who is identified as a leader and representative of the entire ethnic group.
- An ethnic minority group that is seen as having outstanding abilities.
- A person who is a member of multiple minority groups.
adj
noun
- (US) A member of an ethnic minority.
- Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
- a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
- The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- (sociology) A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.
- The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- (India, euphemistic) A Muslim.
- any age prior to the legal age
- being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
adj
- (nonstandard) Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
- Consisting of different elements; various.
- Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
- Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
- many and different
- distinctly dissimilar or unlike
verb
noun
- (in job listings) Abbreviation of minority.
- (cricket, in batting figures) the number of minutes a player spent at the crease
- (India, Islam, Internet slang) Initialism of Muslim; mostly used by Hindutva netizens primarily towards Islamist supporters and Muslim militants.
- (cricket, in bowling figures) the number of maiden overs bowled
- (slang) Initialism of morphine.
- Abbreviation of Monday.
- Monsieur.
- Abbreviation of nautical mile.
- (entomology) Initialism of media.
- (US, film) A film with the content rating M.
- Initialism of men (sign on toilet door).
- (usually clothing) Initialism of medium (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- Initialism of million.
- Initialism of masochist.
- Initialism of mother.
- concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
- a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
- the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet
adj
character
name
num
noun
- (countable, also attributively) Initialism of gender minority.
- (countable, roleplaying games) Initialism of game master, game mistress, or game moderator.
- (countable) Initialism of George Medal.
- (usually uncountable) Initialism of genital mutilation.
- (countable) Initialism of gold master.
- (countable) Initialism of general manager.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of Grandmaster or grandmaster.
- (countable, MLE, slang) Initialism of gang member.
- (usually uncountable, nautical, engineering, physics) Metacentric height, a measure of a ship's static stability in roll.
- (usually uncountable) Initialism of genetic modification.
adj
intj
name
verb
noun
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
noun
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state
- a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists
- The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.
- A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).
noun
adj
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
noun
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
noun
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
verb
noun
- A large minority group that comprises a significant percentage of the population or most of the minority population.
- (more generally) A minority group that wields disproportionate power.
- Multiple minority groups, seen as a single coalition or group.
- A voting block which, although it has less than 50% of the vote, has sufficient numbers to prevent any other group from forming a supermajority.
- A member of a minority group who has extraordinary abilities, often one who is identified as a leader and representative of the entire ethnic group.
- An ethnic minority group that is seen as having outstanding abilities.
- A person who is a member of multiple minority groups.
noun
- (in job listings) Abbreviation of minority.
- (cricket, in batting figures) the number of minutes a player spent at the crease
- (India, Islam, Internet slang) Initialism of Muslim; mostly used by Hindutva netizens primarily towards Islamist supporters and Muslim militants.
- (cricket, in bowling figures) the number of maiden overs bowled
- (slang) Initialism of morphine.
- Abbreviation of Monday.
- Monsieur.
- Abbreviation of nautical mile.
- (entomology) Initialism of media.
- (US, film) A film with the content rating M.
- Initialism of men (sign on toilet door).
- (usually clothing) Initialism of medium (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- Initialism of million.
- Initialism of masochist.
- Initialism of mother.
- concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
- a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
- the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet
adj
character
name
num
noun
- (countable, also attributively) Initialism of gender minority.
- (countable, roleplaying games) Initialism of game master, game mistress, or game moderator.
- (countable) Initialism of George Medal.
- (usually uncountable) Initialism of genital mutilation.
- (countable) Initialism of gold master.
- (countable) Initialism of general manager.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of Grandmaster or grandmaster.
- (countable, MLE, slang) Initialism of gang member.
- (usually uncountable, nautical, engineering, physics) Metacentric height, a measure of a ship's static stability in roll.
- (usually uncountable) Initialism of genetic modification.
adj
intj
name
verb
adj
noun
- (US) A member of an ethnic minority.
- Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
- a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
- The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- (sociology) A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.
- The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- (India, euphemistic) A Muslim.
- any age prior to the legal age
- being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
noun
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
noun
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state
- a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists
- The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.
- A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).
noun
adj
noun
- (US) A member of an ethnic minority.
- Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
- a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
- The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- (sociology) A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.
- The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- (India, euphemistic) A Muslim.
- any age prior to the legal age
- being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
adj
- (nonstandard) Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
- Consisting of different elements; various.
- Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
- Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
- many and different
- distinctly dissimilar or unlike
verb
adj
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
noun
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
noun
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else