Definition of Minorca

1. Proper noun. One of the Balearic Islands of Spain. ¹

2. Proper noun. A breed of poultry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minorca

1. any of a breed of large domestic fowls [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minorca

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minor sublingual ducts
minor suit
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minor term
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minor triad
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minorants
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minorca
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minority

Literary usage of Minorca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The origin of the Diocese of Minorca is not known, but it certainly existed ¡n the fifth century, as its bishop, Macarius, together with Elias and Opilio, ..."

2. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1896)
"From Prince Potemkin, one of Catherine's lovers whose favour Harris courted, he learned that nothing short of the cession of Minorca would induce the ..."

3. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1855)
"The substance of the evidence, as stated by the bill of exceptions, was as follows : on behalf of the plaintiff, that the defendant at the island of Minorca ..."

4. England in the Seven Years' War: A Study in Combined Strategy by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1907)
"Nor was the Toulon squadron then intended for operations against Minorca. It was only part of the original feeble plan for keeping a defensive squadron ..."

5. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"... that about fifteen thousand French had landed in Minorca, and were besieging the castle of St. Philip, which commands the town and port of Mahon. ..."

6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"(to wit) on the »aid 1st day of September, in the year aforesaid, at tbe said island of Minorca aforesaid, was guilty of a riot and disturbance of the peace ..."

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