MINION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minion mean? 

• MINION (noun)
  The noun MINION has 1 sense:

1. a servile or fawning dependant

  Familiarity information: MINION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A servile or fawning dependant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("minion" is a kind of...):

dependant; dependent (a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support))

 Context examples 

Ferdinando, the 'minion', carries them away, and Hagar puts back the cup which holds the poison meant for Roderigo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, "What ho, minion! I need thee!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)