majuscule English

Meaning majuscule meaning

What does majuscule mean?

majuscule

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

— adjective (= capital, great) uppercase capital A great A many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

— noun (= capital, uppercase, upper-case 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

Synonyms majuscule synonyms

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majuscule English » English

capital

uppercase

great

upper-case letter

capital letter

upper case

stout

muckle

mickle

majuscular

large

hulking

bulky

big