majuscule

Adjective

• uppercase
  • capital A
    
  • great A
    
  • many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
    

• 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; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
  • printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  capital , great , capital letter , uppercase , upper-case letter
• Antonyms: 
  minuscule , minuscular , small letter , lowercase , lower-case letter