One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.

synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase.

Roget 561: letter; character; hieroglyphic etc. (writing) 590; type etc. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC^†, abecedary^†, christcross-row.    consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong [Gramm.]; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural.    syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable^†, polysyllable; affix, suffix.    spelling, orthograph^†; phonography^†, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism^†, metagrammatism^†.    cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic^†.    ... show more

Dutch: hoofdletter
Polish: duża litera, majuskuła, wersalik, wielka litera

Of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries.

Uppercase:
— Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script.

synonyms: capital, great.