"A minor" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} A minor (uncountable)
  1. (music) The minor key with A as its tonic, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Music Translations (minor key): a-moll [common-gender] (Danish), a-mineur (Dutch), a-klein (Dutch), a-molli (Finnish), la mineur [masculine] (French), a-Moll [neuter] (German), a-moll (Hungarian), la minore [masculine] (Italian), イ短調 (itanchō) (alt: イたんちょう) (Japanese), 가 단조 (ga danjo) (Korean), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ля мино́р (lja minór) [masculine] (Russian), a-moll (Swedish), la minör (Turkish)
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  2. (music) The minor chord with a root of A. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Music Translations (minor chord): a-mineur (Dutch), a-klein (Dutch), la mineur [masculine] (French), a-Moll [neuter] (German), a-moll (Hungarian), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-A_minor-en-noun-ExQoUAgC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 47 53 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'minor chord': 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.