| NOUN | communication | majuscule, capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter | 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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| ADJECTIVE | all | majuscule | of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters |
| all | majuscule, capital, great | uppercase |
| Meaning | Of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries. | |
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| Narrower | majuscular | Of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules |
| See also | uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case |
| Opposite | minuscule, minuscular | Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial |
| Spanish | uncial | |
| Meaning | uppercase. | |
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| Example | "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" | |
| Synonyms | capital, great | |
| Broader | uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | capital, mayúscula | |
| Catalan | capital, majúscula | |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter | |
| Narrower | small capital, small cap | A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters |
| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
| Opposite | small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | caja alta, letra mayúscula, mayúscula | |
| Catalan | caixa alta, lletra majúscula, majúscula | |
| Adjectives | majuscular | of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules |
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