capital letter

capital letter
noun
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
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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

• 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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a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r: used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc. Also called capital.

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capital letter UK US
See:capital 1 2

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capital letter,
the large form of a letter; A, B, C, D, and so on, as distinguished from a, c, d, and so on; capital. Abbr: cap.

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ˌcapital ˈletter 7 [capital letter] noun
= ↑capital (5)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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