nnoun.communicationone of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"Synset:capital capital letter upper-case letter uppercase
Examples:- printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
Antonyms:lowercase
Derivationally Related Form:majuscularcapitalcapitalizecapitalise
Hypernyms:character graph grapheme graphic symbol
Inherited Hypernyms:capitalcharacterwritten symbolsymbolsignalcommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:small capsmall capital
Full Hyponyms:small capital
adjadj.allof or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuriesAntonyms:minuscule
Inherited Hypernyms:majuscule
Similar to:majuscular
See also:uppercase
adj satadj.alluppercaseSynset:capital great
Examples:- capital A
- great A
- many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
Antonyms:lowercase
Derivationally Related Form:capital
Inherited Hypernyms:capital
Similar to:uppercase