minorities
- 1Plural of minority.
The country's ethnic minorities each preserve their own languages and customs.
Religious minorities in the region have asked for stronger legal safeguards.
Note
The plural counts different things depending on which sense of minority it pluralizes. It can mean several groups, such as ethnic or religious minorities, each outnumbered by the rest. In US usage it can also count people, because there a minority can be one member of an ethnic minority: hiring more minorities means hiring more individuals. In India the word works as a euphemism for Muslims, so context decides the meaning.
minorities is a form of minority
minority, noun: A subgroup that forms less than half of a total, fewer in number than the rest of the group. Full entry
- Forms
- minorityminorities plural
- Spelling
- minority → minorities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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