Webster's English Dictionary

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minority

mi.nor.i.ty \m*-'no.r-*t-e-, mi--, -'na:r-\ n often attrib  1a: the period 
   before attainment of majority  1b: the state of being a legal minor  2: the 
   smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole; specif :: a group 
   having less than the number of votes necessary for control 3: a part of a 
   population differing from others in some characteristics and  often 
   subjected to differential treatment