minion

[ min-yuhn ]

noun

1. a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
2. a favored or highly regarded person.
3. a minor official.
4. Printing. a 7-point type.

adjective

1. dainty; elegant; trim; pretty.

minion

/ ˈmɪnjən /

noun

1. a favourite or dependant, esp a servile or fawning one
2. a servile agent

   the minister's minions

3. a size of printer's type, approximately equal to 7 point

adjective

1. dainty, pretty, or elegant

Word History and Origins

Origin of minion¹

1490–1500; < Middle French mignon, for Old French mignot dainty < ?

Word History and Origins

Origin of minion¹

C16: from French mignon, from Old French mignot, of Gaulish origin

Example Sentences

His media minions have amplified the patronizing attitude in line with state-sponsored misogyny that is already common in Russia.

From The Daily Beast

A hearing is done, a law is passed, and it’s part of the game that politicians and their minions interpret the event with their own take.

From Washington Post

I wonder if there is a polite way to ask her to say "please" or some equivalent, so I don't feel like her minion or unappreciated secretary.

From Washington Post

The president and his minions were focused on other threats.

From ProPublica

Instruct your minions to remove any extraneous branches, and sharpen one end of each stick with a pocketknife.

From Outside Online

Pranab Mukherjee, a minion brought in primarily to help speed up bank loans to Sanjay, is currently the president of India.

From The Daily Beast

Even worse, Rajiv Shah, the new head of USAID, is a Hillary “minion,” as one insider puts it, who has hardly put up a fight.

From The Daily Beast

Falser than the Bank of Fancy, frailer than a shilling glove, Puppet to a father's anger, minion to a nabob's love!

From Project Gutenberg

The minion of a Czar and the representative of a nation cannot be united in one and the same person.

From Project Gutenberg

I was but planning with this minion here some way to freshen your spirits.

From Project Gutenberg

I will have a garment reach to my taille; Then am I a minion, for I wear the new guise.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed as if he would scarce ever again discover the carnate dwelling-place of the haunting minion of his imagination.

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