capital letter
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
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