Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
minim (plural minims)
- (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- the minims of existence
- (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- These as a line thir
[ sic] long dimension drew,
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
- These as a line thir
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
Minim
Noun
minim (plural minims)
- A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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