| NOUN | communication | upper-case letter, capital, capital letter, uppercase, 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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| 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" | |
| Synonyms | capital, capital letter, uppercase, majuscule | |
| 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 | |
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