CAPITAL LETTER as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • one 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
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
    Hypernyms(s) capital letter is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s) Hyponym(s) Derived(s)