CAPITAL LETTER
(noun)Definitions
There is 1 meaning of the phrase
Capital Letter.
Capital Letter - as a noun
One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Example: "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 (Exact Relations)
capital11majuscule20upper-case letteruppercase15Hypernyms (Closely Related)
character16graph11grapheme16graphic symbolHyponyms (Broadly Related)
Example Sentences
"Please remember to start your name with a capital letter."
"The first word of a sentence should always be capitalized using a capital letter."
"She corrected her mistake by writing the proper noun with a capital letter."
"In the word 'Apple', the 'A' is a capital letter."
"Titles of books are typically written with each major word beginning with a capital letter."
