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| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | an outnumbered group |
| Synonyms: | opposition, splinter group, less than half, the few, the outnumbered, the outvoted |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, immaturity, youth, pubescence, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | adolescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | boyhood, minority, spring, youth, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, pubescence, teens, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
| Antonyms: | infancy, adulthood |
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, youth, juniority, juvenility, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, imperceptible, inconsequential, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, scattering, seldom, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, thin, trifling, uncommon, few and far between, inconsiderable, not many, not too many, scant, scarcely any, semioccasional, straggling, unfrequent, widely spaced |
| Antonyms: | many, much |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group sharing a belief or cause |
| Synonyms: | band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, caucus, cell, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, concern, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, contingent, coterie, crew, crowd, design, division, entente, gang, guild, intrigue, junta, knot, lobby, machine, minority, mob, network, offshoot, outfit, partnership, party, pressure group, ring, schism, sect, section, sector, set, side, splinter group, team, unit, wing, combo, insiders |
| Antonyms: | entirety, total, whole |
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