Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In paleography, a capital or uncial letter: opposed to minuscule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See
majusculæ . - noun writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
capital letter , especially one used in ancientmanuscripts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
- adjective uppercase
- noun one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Rogers lost out on the word "majuscule," which is a large-typeface, capital letter used in conjunction with smaller script in printing or writing.
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Rogers lost out on the word "majuscule," which is a large-typeface, capital letter used in conjunction with smaller script in printing or writing.
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Rogers lost out on the word "majuscule," which is a large-typeface, capital letter used in conjunction with smaller script in printing or writing.
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He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome.
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He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome.
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He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome.
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He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome.
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Ecoles sans accent sur la majuscule, chez moi c'est une question de style et d'école, justement — et pas intéressée vraiment à en discuté, déjà fait “to death” sur usenet et ailleurs
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Avec la majuscule au J et au P sinon ca marche pas!!
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In honor of all the politicking, I give you one of my favorite political poems, this by e.e. cummings, of the famous minuscule vs majuscule debate.
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