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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