English Dictionary

minion

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɪnjən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 別表記

A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being. / A sycophantic follower. / (obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.

日本語の意味

忠実な従者、下僕（通常はより強力な存在に仕える） / お世辞を使って従う追従者 / （古語）愛される者、高く評価される者

A powerful sorcerer sent his minion to retrieve the artifact.

強力な魔術師は秘宝を取り戻すために忠実な手下を派遣した。

意味（1）

A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

意味（2）

A sycophantic follower.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.

God's disciple and his dearest minion

意味（4）

(obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.

Gun. My Cannons rung like Bells. Here's to my Mistress, The dainty sweet brass Minion: split their Fore-mast, She never fail'd.

意味（5）

(uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.

意味（6）

Obsolete form of minimum.

Of philosophers and scholars priscae sapientiae dictatores, I have already spoken in general terms, those superintendents of wit and learning, men above men, those refined men, minions of the muses.

minions （ plural ）