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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan

Meaning of "minority group" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MINORITY GROUP

minority group  [maɪˈnɒrɪtɪ ɡruːp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINORITY GROUP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Minority group is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MINORITY GROUP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Minority group

A minority group is a sociological category within a demographic. Rather than a relational "social group", as the term would indicate, the term refers to a category that is differentiated and defined by the social majority, that is, those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society. The differentiation can be based on one or more observable human characteristics, including, for example, ethnicity, race, gender, wealth, health or sexual orientation. Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history, despite its popular mis-association with a numerical, statistical minority. In the social sciences, the term "minority" is used to refer to categories of persons who hold few positions of social power. The term "minority group" often occurs alongside a discourse of civil rights and collective rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. Members of minority groups are prone to different treatment in the countries and societies in which they live. This discrimination may be directly based on an individual's perceived membership of a minority group, without consideration of that individual's personal achievement.

Definition of minority group in the English dictionary

The definition of minority group in the dictionary is a group that is different racially, politically, etc, from a larger group of which it is a part.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINORITY GROUP


croup
kruːp
droop
druːp
drupe
druːp
group
ɡruːp
intergroup
ˌɪntəˈɡruːp
newsgroup
ˈnjuːzˌɡruːp
paratroop
ˈpærəˌtruːp
playgroup
ˈpleɪˌɡruːp
regroup
riːˈɡruːp
roup
ruːp
semigroup
ˈsɛmɪˌɡruːp
subgroup
ˈsʌbˌɡruːp
supergroup
ˈsuːpəˌɡruːp
troop
truːp
troupe
truːp
workgroup
ˈwɜːkˌɡruːp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINORITY GROUP

minor mode
minor orders
minor planet
minor premise
Minor Prophets
minor seventh
minor seventh chord
minor suit
minor term
Minorca
Minorcan
minoritaire
Minorite
minorities
minority
minority carrier
minority president
minority programme
minority report
minorship

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINORITY GROUP

action group
advocacy group
age group
battle group
buying group
carboxyl group
control group
discussion group
focus group
house group
in-group
interest group
media group
out-group
parent group
public-interest group
splinter group
support group
target group
user group
working group

Synonyms and antonyms of minority group in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «minority group» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINORITY GROUP

Find out the translation of minority group to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of minority group from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «minority group» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

少数民族
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grupo minoritario
570 millions of speakers

English

minority group
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अल्पसंख्यक समूह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أقلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

меньшинства
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grupo minoritário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংখ্যালঘূ দল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

groupe minoritaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kumpulan minoriti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Minderheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

少数派
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소수 집단
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kelompok minoritas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhóm dân tộc thiểu số
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறுபான்மை குழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अल्पसंख्याक गट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

azınlık grup
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gruppo di minoranza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mniejszość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меншини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grup minoritar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μειονοτική ομάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minderheid groep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

minoritetsgrupp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

minoritetsgruppe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of minority group

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINORITY GROUP»

The term «minority group» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.962 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINORITY GROUP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «minority group» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «minority group» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about minority group

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6 QUOTES WITH «MINORITY GROUP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word minority group.
1
Jack Germond
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
2
Norman Mailer
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
3
Solomon Ortiz
To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
4
John Perez
If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.
5
Carl T. Rowan
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
6
Eriq La Salle
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINORITY GROUP»

Discover the use of minority group in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to minority group and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Minority Group Threat, Crime, and Policing: Social Context ...
Jackson's (sociology, Rhode Island College) thesis is that the mobilization of municipal police resources in the early 1970s was influenced by the size of local minority populations.
Pamela Irving Jackson, 1989
2
Asian American Studies: A Reader
1 SUCCESS STORY OF ONE MINORITY GROUP IN U.S U.S. News and World Report, 196 At a time when Americans are awash in worry over the plight of racial minorities-one such minority, the nation's 300,000 Chinese-Americans, ...
Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu, Min Song, 2000
3
Essentials of Sociology
A minority group is a group that is culturally, economically, and politically subordinate. Accommodation occurs when two groups coexist as separate cultures in the same society. politically dominant. A minority group is a group that, because of ...
David Brinkerhoff, Lynn K. White, Suzanne Ortega, 2007
4
Communicative Competence in a Minority Group: A ...
A Sociolinguistic Study of the Swahili-Speaking Community in the Old Town, Mombasa Joan Russell. 'ghain' has been found to be used for /y/, /g/, /rj/ as well as /n/ + /g/. The character 'jim' can also be used for the velar nasal (with or without a ...
Joan Russell, 1981
5
Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America
This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors’ multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue’s level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral ...
John D. Griffin, Brian Newman, 2008
6
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift.
Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert, Sjaak Kroon, 1992
7
Minority group employment in the Federal Government
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Surveys of minority group employment in the Federal Government are conducted as part of the overall Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) effort and in response to the legal and regulatory framework for ...
United States Civil Service Commission. Bureau of Manpower Information Systems, 1975
8
Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium
... true extent of a minority group's 'solidarity' since the possibility of forced assimilation must always be borne in mind. Sigler argues that the term ' numerically inferior' further excludes factual minority groups, such as women, and proposes an ...
Deirdre Fottrell, Bill Bowring, 1999
9
Minority Languages and Group Identity: Cases and Categories
aspects generally coexist, but they can become separated; minority-group speakers who no longer use the original language for ordinary communicative purposes often retain an attachment that involves the language as a group symbol.
John Edwards, 2010
10
The Perennial Struggle: Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Group ...
The authors wrote this book to integrate the various perspectives of the social science disciplines into courses such as Race and Racism, Roots of American Racism, and Minority Group Politics in the United States.
Michael Lemay, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINORITY GROUP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term minority group is used in the context of the following news items.
1
This amazing viral dance video is also super ignorant
It's most likely to be harmful when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways, or when the ... «Vox, Jul 15»
2
Hutch celebrates 25th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act …
It's been said that disability is the one minority group that any of us may join at any moment, he added. As a representative of the Justice ... «Hutchinson News, Jul 15»
3
What's new in the health world?
... more likely than other surveyed female smokers to be young, unmarried, part of a minority group and have some form of college education. «The Keene Sentinel, Jul 15»
4
Disability act marked turnaround 25 years ago, but work to be done
"It's the only minority group people can enter at any time of their life through accident or illness," said Tamley, who has been disabled since birth ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
5
'Latino Americans: 500 Years of History' grant awarded to college
“Latino Americans are the country's largest minority group, with more than 50 million people, and still many people are unaware of their rich ... «La Junta Tribune Democrat, Jul 15»
6
Georgia Trans Woman Sues Prison System Again After Repeated …
... that *any* minority group would feel more comfortable around other minority groups. For the record, black trans women are the most targeted ... «Madame Noire, Jul 15»
7
UC Berkeley Drops Health Coverage for Families
... that's a good enough reason for UC Berkeley's decision. "They're basically saying that if you're a minority group, you don't matter," he said. «East Bay Express, Jul 15»
8
Local business takes risk by sharing owner's opinion
The court moved to protect a minority group that our forefathers certainly never intended to protect. Many religious conservatives were similarly ... «Statesman Journal, Jul 15»
9
Sheffield United award former Thai refugee with first professional …
Born in the Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp, he and his family of ethnic Karens, a minority group who have faced oppression in Myanmar, had ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Forced marriages: The shame of modern Britain
The point is not to isolate or target a particular and undeserving minority group; on the contrary, the motivation must be to address and ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

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