English > lower-case letter: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. |
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| Synonyms | small letter, lowercase, minuscule |
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| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
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| Opposite | capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule | 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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| Spanish | caja baja, letra minúscula, minúscula |
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| Catalan | caixa baixa, lletra minúscula, minúscula |
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