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English Dictionary: capital letter	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for capital letter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
capital letter n 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" Synonym(s): capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule Antonym(s): lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Capital letter} [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing. {Small capital letters} have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters. {Capital stock}, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. --Abbott. Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent.