minyan*: Meaning and Definition of

min•yan

1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
2. such a group.

Min•yan

1. descended from Minyas.
2. being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000b.c.

1. the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.