[tūa banjong] (n, exp) EN: printed letter ; block letter FR: lettre capitale [ f ] ; lettre majuscule [ f ]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Majuscule \Ma*jus"cule\, n. [Cf. F. majuscule. See
{Majusculae}.]
A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient
manuscripts. See {Majusculae}.
[1913 Webster]
{Majuscule writing}, writing composed wholly of capital
letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe
from the third to the sixth century.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
majuscule
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}]
From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
majuscule /maʒyskyl/
capital letter
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