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Definition 2024

capital letter ‎(plural capital letters)

An upper-case letter (A, B, C, ... as opposed to a, b, c, ...), used for emphasis, for starting sentences and proper names, etc.

(an upper-case letter): big letter, capital, majuscule, upper case letter, upper-case letter, uppercase letter
- (collectively): upper case, uppercase

letters A B C

Arabic: حَرْف كَبِير m ‎(ḥarf kabīr)
Armenian: մեծատառ (hy) ‎(mecataṙ)
Bulgarian: гла́вна бу́ква f ‎(glávna búkva)
Catalan: lletra majúscula f, majúscula f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大寫字母 (zh), 大写字母 (zh) ‎(dàxiě zìmǔ), 大寫 (zh), 大写 (zh) ‎(dàxiě)
Czech: velké písmeno
Dutch: hoofdletter (nl) f
Esperanto: majusklo
Finnish: suuraakkonen (fi), iso kirjain, versaali (fi), versaalikirjain, majuskeli (fi)
French: majuscule (fr) f
Georgian: მთავრული ‎(mtavruli), ასომთავრული ‎(asomtavruli), დიდი ასო ‎(didi aso)
German: Großbuchstabe (de) m, Majuskel (de) f, Kapitalbuchstabe m, Versal (de) m, Versalbuchstabe m, Versalie (de) f
Greek:
- Modern: κεφαλαίο γράμμα n ‎(kefalaío grámma), κεφαλαίο (el) n ‎(kefalaío)

Hungarian: nagybetű (hu)
Indonesian: huruf besar
Irish: ceannlitir f
Italian: maiuscolo (it) m, maiuscola (it) f
Japanese: 大文字 (ja) ‎(おおもじ, ōmoji)
Korean: 대사 (ko) ‎(daesa), 대문자 (ko) ‎(daemunja) (大文字 (ko))
Manx: kione-lettyr m, lettyr mooar m
Maori: pūmatua
Mongolian: том үсэг ‎(tom üseg)
Polish: duża litera (pl) f, wielka litera (pl) f
Portuguese: maiúsculo (pt) m, maiúscula (pt) f, letra maiúscula f
Romanian: majusculă (ro) f, literă mare (ro) f
Russian: прописна́я бу́ква (ru) f ‎(propisnája búkva), загла́вная бу́ква (ru) f ‎(zaglávnaja búkva), больша́я бу́ква f ‎(bolʹšája búkva)
Serbo-Croatian: veliko slovo n
Slovene: velika začetnica f
Spanish: mayúscula (es) f, letra mayúscula (es) f
Swedish: stor bokstav (sv) c, versal (sv)
Turkish: büyük harf (tr), büyük (tr)
Volapük: mayud (vo)