noun
- One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: capital, capital letter, uppercase, majuscule
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