HyperDic: capital_letter

English > 1 sense of the expression capital letter:
NOUNcommunicationcapital letter, capital, uppercase, upper-case letter, majusculeone of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
English > capital letter: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningOne of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.
Synonymscapital, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
Narrowersmall capital, small capA character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
Broadercharacter, graph, grapheme, graphic symbolA written symbol that is used to represent speech
Oppositesmall letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minusculeThe characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Spanishcaja alta, letra mayúscula, mayúscula
Catalancaixa alta, lletra majúscula, majúscula

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