capital letter

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noun

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
• Syn:
capital, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
• Ant:
lowercase (for: uppercase)
• Derivationally related forms:
majuscular (for: majuscule), capital (for: capital), capitalize (for: capital), capitalise (for: capital)
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
small capital, small cap