English dictionary
majuscule
adjectivePronunciation
ˈmædʒəskjuːl
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- uppercase
adjective
- of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
noun
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Example sentences
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
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