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lowercase

DEFINITIONS OF: lowercase

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adj relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case

“lowercase letters”
Synonyms
little, minuscule, small
lowercase
minuscular, minuscule
of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
Antonyms:
uppercase
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
capital, great, majuscule
uppercase
majuscule
of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
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n the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

Synonyms:
lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter
Antonyms:
capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Type of:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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