| ADJECTIVE | all | lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case |
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| NOUN | communication | lowercase, small letter, lower-case letter, minuscule | the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
| Meaning | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case. | |
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| Example | "lowercase letters | |
| Narrower | little, minuscule, small | lowercase |
| See also | minuscule, minuscular | Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial |
| Opposite | uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | minúscula | |
| Catalan | minúscula | |
| Meaning | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. | |
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| Synonyms | small letter, lower-case letter, minuscule | |
| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
| 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 |
| Spanish | caja baja, letra minúscula, minúscula | |
| Catalan | caixa baixa, lletra minúscula, minúscula | |
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