"minorities" in the noun sense
1. minority
a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
2. minority
being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
"when the vote was taken they were in the minority"
"he held a minority position"
3. minority, nonage
any age prior to the legal age
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