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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A letter having the form of capital letter but smaller; for example: SMALL CAPITALS.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Print.) a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a character having the form of upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters

Examples

  • “When she was beyond the small capital city of Royal Fenguard, in the marshes of the Little Fen that extended between it and the broad expanse of Moss Lake, she guided the skiff out of the main channel and made it go up one of the innumerable small creeks that led back into the bulrushes.”

    Conqueror's Moon

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hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. uppercase
  1. majuscule
  1. upper-case letter
  1. capital letter
  1. capital

reverse dictionary (31)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. small capital
  2. neck-molding
  3. Pierre
  4. Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  5. Astana
  6. Jackson
  1. helix
  2. astragal
  3. minuscule
  4. point
  5. annulet
  6. b
  1. jamb-shaft
  2. light-year
  3. Madagascar
  4. Mauritius
  5. Megara
  6. Liechtenstein
  1. shoestring
  2. pre-screens
  3. a
  4. flyer
  5. sc
  6. Scotland
  1. Spain
  2. neckmold
  3. baluster
  4. income
  5. lowercase
  6. minor
  1. palaeotype

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