majuscule

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I - 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
• Syn:
capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter
• Ant:
lowercase (for: uppercase)
• Derivationally related forms:
majuscular, capital (for: capital), capitalize (for: capital), capitalise (for: capital)
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
small capital, small cap

II - adjective

1. of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters;
4th to 8th centuries
• Ant:
minuscule
• Similar to:
majuscular
• See Also:
uppercase
2. uppercase
- capital A
- great A
- many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
• Syn:
capital, great
• Similar to:
uppercase
• Derivationally related forms:
capital (for: capital)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  capital, great, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  minuscule, minuscular, small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter