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minion

 
(mĭn'yən) pronunciation
n.
  1. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
  2. A subordinate official, especially a servile one.
  3. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.

[French mignon, darling, from Old French mignot, mignon.]


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noun

  1. One who supports and adheres to another: adherent, cohort, disciple, follower, henchman, partisan, satellite, supporter. See over/under, precede/follow.
  2. A person who is much loved: beloved, darling, dear, honey, love, precious, sweet, sweetheart, truelove. Informal sweetie. Idioms: light of one's life. See love/hatred.

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IN BRIEF: One who serves a powerful person or organization. Also: A favorite.

pronunciation That police officer was a noted minion of the law.

Tutor's tip: Note: A "minion" is (a servant or subordinate) and a "minyan" is (a group of ten males, 13 years or older, required for conducting Jewish public worship).

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A minion is a follower devoted to serve his/her master relentlessly.

Minion may refer to:

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Computing

  • Minion (solver), constraint solver
  • Minion (typeface), the name of a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type

Arts and entertainment

  • Maelstrom's Minions, Marvel Comics supervillains Gronk, Helio, and Phobius that work for Maelstrom
  • Mandarin's Minions, a group of Marvel Comics villains led by and brought together by The Mandarin
  • Minion (comics), a DC Comics superhero who was a member of the Teen Titans
  • Minion Hunter, a board game originally released in 1992 by Games Designers Workshop
  • Minions (flash game), a 2008 flash game featured on the Casual Collective website
  • Minions of Mirth, a 2005 role-playing game for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows by Prairie Games, Inc
  • Minions, small creatures from Despicable Me, a 2010 American computer-animated 3-D feature film from Universal and the upcoming 3-D ride, Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem.
  • Overlord: Minions, a 2009 puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS
  • The creatures controlled by the player character in Overlord
  • The Minion, a 1998 American and Canadian action supernatural horror film directed by Jean-Marc Piché
  • Minion, a character from the animated movie Megamind
  • Minions, people who follow Misha Collins' Twitter.
  • Minions, Blair Waldorf's followers at Constance Billard School in the television show Gossip Girl

People

  • Joseph Minion, American film director and screenwriter, best known for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985)
  • Fred Minion, an English professional footballer who played as a wing half

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - slave, tjenende ånd

Nederlands (Dutch)
gunsteling

Français (French)
n. - sous-fifre (péj ou hum), subalterne

Deutsch (German)
n. - Günstling, Ergebener

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τσιράκι

Italiano (Italian)
favorito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - favorito (m), indivíduo servil (m), tipo de corpo para impressão (m)

Русский (Russian)
фаворит, подхалим, любовник, любовница, любимый, изящный

Español (Spanish)
n. - favorito, paniaguado

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gunstling, tjänande ande, kolonel

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
奴才, 宠臣

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 奴才, 寵臣

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 마음에 들어 하는 부하, 철없는 여자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - お気に入り, 手先, 子分

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خادم, خدام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮משרת מתרפס, עבד, חביב האדון, חיה אהובה‬


 
 
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