English > upper-case letter: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| 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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| Example | capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" |
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| Synonyms | capital, capital letter, uppercase, majuscule |
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| Narrower | small capital, small cap | A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters |
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| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
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| Opposite | small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
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| Spanish | caja alta, letra mayúscula, mayúscula |
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| Catalan | caixa alta, lletra majúscula, majúscula |
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