capital letter

capital letter

n.

A letter written or printed in a size larger than and often in a form differing from its corresponding lowercase letter; an uppercase letter.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

capital letter - 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" majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" small capital, small cap - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters