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