capital letter
noun
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters
Types & categories
- grapheme hypernym
- small capital hyponym
Related & opposite
- minuscule antonym
- capitalize derivation
- majuscule derivation
- majuscular derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | minuscule |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | capitalize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | majuscule |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | majuscular |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grapheme |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | small capital |