If you have eight pennies and twelve dimes, the minority of your coins are pennies. The word minority is often used to describe people when their race or religion is shared by less than half of a nation.
If you have red hair, you are in the minority as most people have blonde or brown hair. Because white people of European descent make up the majority of the population in the U.S., pundits refer to the minority vote when they talk about the political candidates that non-whites prefer in political elections. Majority is the opposite of minority.
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being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
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any age prior to the legal age
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