majuscule

Examples

• All

• A title written in majuscule letters stands out prominently on the cover page.

• Majuscules are distinguished from minuscules by a precise proportional system and by immediately perceptible differences in the thickness of engraved lines.

  Academic text (1995)

• Avoid threatening movements, I advised myself, wondering what a majuscule would find threatening...

  Fiction book (2001)

• Four smaller majuscules were with him, and all five were walking upright.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Flanking the solid majuscule of your surname.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Or perhaps that trigger spot was coded somehow only for majuscules.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I wondered, nervously, if sheer geometry made majuscules particularly narrow-minded.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Below the tools are specimens of engraved letters, both majuscules and minuscules, with a cursive style that bears comparison to Petroschi's.

  Academic text (1995)

• The teacher emphasized the importance of using a majuscule at the beginning of proper nouns.

Synonyms

C

capital

vsmajuscule

64 1.2

A large letter used at the start of names or sentences

is the specific typographic name for that large letter form

U

uppercase

vsmajuscule

4 2.2

A large letter used at the start of names or sentences

is the older specialist term for that same large character

C

capital letter

vsmajuscule

4 1.0

A large letter that you use at the start of a sentence or name

is the traditional typographic term for that same large letter

U

upper-case letter

vsmajuscule

1 1.5

A large letter that begins names and sentences

is the unhyphenated traditional term for the same large letter

C

capital letters

vsmajuscule

1.0

Large letters that start sentences and names

is the singular term referring to one large letter rather than the set

Surface Forms

Etymology