Plural of minority
regular plural
The plural of minority is minorities.
Forms of minority
| Singular | minority /maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | minorities |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Minorities in a sentence
- The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.
- But we have seen that one important difference between women and other minorities is that women's attitudes and self-conceptions are conditioned more largely by interaction with both minority and dominant group members1951 October, Helen Mayer Hacker, “Women as Minority Group”, in Howard W. Odum, Katherine Jocher, editors, Social Forces, volume 30, number...
- Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.From the entry martyr
- We are concerned about the underrepresentation of minorities.From the entry underrepresentation
- In Trump’s Republican Party, Hitlerian language about immigrants and minorities has become routine.2026 March 12, Michelle Goldberg, “I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.”, in The New York…. From the entry Hitlerian
Meaning of minority
- noun The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- noun The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- noun Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
Questions about the plural of minority
- What is the plural of minority?
- The plural of minority is minorities.
- Is minority countable?
- Minority is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: minority (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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