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capital letter
–noun
| a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r: used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc. |
Also called capital.
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| capital letter
n. A letter written or printed in a size larger than and often in a form differing from its corresponding lowercase letter; an uppercase letter. |
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| capital letter | |
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] [ant: lower-case letter] |
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