capital letter

Noun
  1. One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (synset 106837277)
    "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"
    is a type of: character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
    subtypes: small cap, small capital - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
    same as: capital, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase

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