majuscule
- (a) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
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(s) uppercase
- capital A
- great A
- many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
Nouns
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(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