Definitions
Subordinate follower or servant of someone powerful.
Word origin
First use appears c. 1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minjō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.
Used in a sentence
“The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city.”
“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.”
“God's disciple and his dearest minion”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Subordinate follower”6 letters
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