Definition of "minor role" []

• A small role (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Marilyn’s first big movie break came when Arthur Hornblow, Jr., and John Huston were trying to cast the minor role of Louis Calhern’s mistress in The Asphalt Jungle."
• "For six years hed allowed Malcolm Smalls a minor role in Nias life, but for every transgression when he tried to become intimate with Nia, Malcolm had been chastised."