| majuscule | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase | 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" |
| ~ grapheme, graphic symbol, character | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ small capital, small cap | a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters. |
| adj. | 2. majuscule | of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries. |
| ~ uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
| ~ majuscular | of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules. |
| adj. | 3. capital, great, majuscule | uppercase.; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" |
| ~ uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
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