Majuscule - Definition

adj 1: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by
somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
[ant: minuscular, minuscule]
2: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great,
majuscule]
n 1: 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" [syn: capital, capital letter,
uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant:
lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small
letter]