"capital letter" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: capital letters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} capital letter (plural capital letters)
  1. An upper-case letter (A, B, C, ... as opposed to a, b, c, ...), used for emphasis, for starting sentences and proper names, etc. Synonyms ((an upper-case letter): big letter, capital, majuscule, upper case letter, upper-case letter, uppercase letter): upper case [collective], uppercase [collective] Related terms: in capital letters, upper case, uppercase, lower case, lowercase Translations: hoofletter (Afrikaans), حَرْف كَبِير (ḥarf kabīr) [masculine] (Arabic), حرف كبير (ḥarf kbīr) [Gulf-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), մեծատառ (mecataṙ) (Armenian), baş hərf (Azerbaijani), вялі́кая лі́тара (vjalíkaja lítara) [feminine] (Belarusian), вялі́кая бу́ква (vjalíkaja búkva) [feminine] (Belarusian), загалоўная лі́тара (zahalóŭnaja lítara) [feminine] (Belarusian), загалоўная бу́ква (zahalóŭnaja búkva) [feminine] (Belarusian), гла́вна бу́ква (glávna búkva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), голя́ма бу́ква (goljáma búkva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), စာလုံးကြီး (calum:kri:) (Burmese), lletra majúscula [feminine] (Catalan), majúscula [feminine] (Catalan), 大寫字母 (Chinese Mandarin), 大写字母 (dàxiě zìmǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 大寫 (Chinese Mandarin), 大写 (dàxiě) (Chinese Mandarin), velké písmeno [neuter] (Czech), majuskule [feminine] (Czech), stort bogstav [neuter] (Danish), hoofdletter [feminine] (Dutch), majuskel [masculine] (Dutch), majusklo (Esperanto), ĉeflitero (Esperanto), suuraakkonen (Finnish), iso kirjain (Finnish), versaali (Finnish), versaalikirjain (Finnish), majuskeli (Finnish), majuscule [feminine] (French), მთავრული (mtavruli) (Georgian), ასომთავრული (asomtavruli) (Georgian), დიდი ასო (didi aso) (Georgian), Großbuchstabe [masculine] (German), Majuskel [feminine] (German), Kapitalbuchstabe [masculine] (German), Versal [masculine] (German), Versalbuchstabe [masculine] (German), Versalie [feminine] (German), κεφαλαίο γράμμα (kefalaío grámma) [neuter] (Greek), κεφαλαίο (kefalaío) [neuter] (Greek), बड़ा अक्षर (baṛā akṣar) [masculine] (Hindi), nagybetű (Hungarian), majuszkula (Hungarian), huruf besar (Indonesian), ceannlitir [feminine] (Irish), maiuscolo [masculine] (Italian), maiuscola [feminine] (Italian), 大文字 (ōmoji) (alt: おおもじ) (Japanese), 대문자 (daemunja) (alt: 大文字) (Korean), голема буква (golema bukva) [feminine] (Macedonian), huruf besar (Malay), kione-lettyr [masculine] (Manx), lettyr mooar [masculine] (Manx), pūmatua (Maori), том үсэг (tom üseg) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), majuskel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), versal [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), majuskuła (Polish), duża litera [feminine] (Polish), wielka litera [feminine] (Polish), maiúscula [feminine] (Portuguese), letra maiúscula [feminine] (Portuguese), majusculă [feminine] (Romanian), literă mare [feminine] (Romanian), прописна́я бу́ква (propisnája búkva) [feminine] (Russian), загла́вная бу́ква (zaglávnaja búkva) [feminine] (Russian), больша́я бу́ква (bolʹšája búkva) [feminine] (Russian), велико слово [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), veliko slovo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), veľké písmeno [neuter] (Slovak), velika začetnica [feminine] (Slovene), mayúscula [feminine] (Spanish), letra mayúscula [feminine] (Spanish), mayúscula inicial [feminine] (Spanish), stor bokstav [common-gender] (Swedish), versal (Swedish), malaking titik (Tagalog), อักษรตัวใหญ่ (àk-sɔ̌ɔn-dtuua-yài) (Thai), büyük harf (Turkish), büyük (Turkish), вели́ка лі́тера (velýka lítera) [feminine] (Ukrainian), вели́ка бу́ква (velýka búkva) [feminine] (Ukrainian), заголо́вна лі́тера (zaholóvna lítera) [feminine] (Ukrainian), заголо́вна бу́ква (zaholóvna búkva) [feminine] (Ukrainian), bosh harf (Uzbek), katta harf (Uzbek), chữ hoa (Vietnamese), mayud (Volapük)
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          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḥarf kabīr",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "afb",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḥarf kbīr",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "حرف كبير"
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          "lang": "Armenian",
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          "word": "մեծատառ"
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          "word": "baş hərf"
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "vjalíkaja lítara",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "vjalíkaja búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "вялі́кая бу́ква"
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        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zahalóŭnaja lítara",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "загалоўная лі́тара"
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        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zahalóŭnaja búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "загалоўная бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "glávna búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "гла́вна бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "goljáma búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "голя́ма бу́ква"
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        {
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "calum:kri:",
          "word": "စာလုံးကြီး"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "lletra majúscula"
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "word": "大寫字母"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dàxiě zìmǔ",
          "word": "大写字母"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "word": "大寫"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dàxiě",
          "word": "大写"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "velké písmeno"
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        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "majuskule"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
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          "word": "stort bogstav"
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "hoofdletter"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "word": "majusklo"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "word": "ĉeflitero"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "suuraakkonen"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "iso kirjain"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "versaali"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "versaalikirjain"
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        {
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "word": "majuskeli"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "mtavruli",
          "word": "მთავრული"
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          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "asomtavruli",
          "word": "ასომთავრული"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "didi aso",
          "word": "დიდი ასო"
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          "lang": "German",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "Großbuchstabe"
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          "lang": "German",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "lang": "German",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Kapitalbuchstabe"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Versal"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Versalbuchstabe"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Versalie"
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          "lang": "Greek",
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            "neuter"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "kefalaío",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "baṛā akṣar",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "बड़ा अक्षर"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "ceannlitir"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "maiuscolo"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maiuscola"
        },
        {
          "alt": "おおもじ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ōmoji",
          "word": "大文字"
        },
        {
          "alt": "大文字",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "daemunja",
          "word": "대문자"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "golema bukva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "голема буква"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "word": "huruf besar"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kione-lettyr"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lettyr mooar"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "word": "pūmatua"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "tom üseg",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "том үсэг"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "majuskel"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "versal"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "word": "majuskuła"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duża litera"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "wielka litera"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maiúscula"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "letra maiúscula"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "majusculă"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "literă mare"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "propisnája búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "прописна́я бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zaglávnaja búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "загла́вная бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bolʹšája búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "больша́я бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "велико слово"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "veliko slovo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "veľké písmeno"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "velika začetnica"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mayúscula"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "letra mayúscula"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mayúscula inicial"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "stor bokstav"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "word": "versal"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "word": "malaking titik"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "àk-sɔ̌ɔn-dtuua-yài",
          "word": "อักษรตัวใหญ่"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "word": "büyük harf"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "word": "büyük"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "velýka lítera",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "вели́ка лі́тера"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "velýka búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "вели́ка бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zaholóvna lítera",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "заголо́вна лі́тера"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "zaholóvna búkva",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "заголо́вна бу́ква"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "word": "bosh harf"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "word": "katta harf"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "word": "chữ hoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "word": "mayud"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "capital letter"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lower case letter"
    },
    {
      "word": "lower-case letter"
    },
    {
      "word": "lowercase letter"
    },
    {
      "word": "minuscule"
    },
    {
      "word": "small letter"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "capital letters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "capital letter (plural capital letters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "in capital letters"
    },
    {
      "word": "upper case"
    },
    {
      "word": "uppercase"
    },
    {
      "word": "lower case"
    },
    {
      "word": "lowercase"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for review of Interlingua translations",
        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Burmese translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Gulf Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Interlingua translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Manx translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Mongolian translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Volapük translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An upper-case letter (A, B, C, ... as opposed to a, b, c, ...), used for emphasis, for starting sentences and proper names, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "upper-case",
          "upper case"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "(an upper-case letter): big letter, capital, majuscule, upper case letter, upper-case letter, uppercase letter",
      "tags": [
        "collective"
      ],
      "word": "upper case"
    },
    {
      "sense": "(an upper-case letter): big letter, capital, majuscule, upper case letter, upper-case letter, uppercase letter",
      "tags": [
        "collective"
      ],
      "word": "uppercase"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "word": "hoofletter"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥarf kabīr",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "حَرْف كَبِير"
    },
    {
      "code": "afb",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥarf kbīr",
      "tags": [
        "Gulf-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "حرف كبير"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mecataṙ",
      "word": "մեծատառ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "word": "baş hərf"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vjalíkaja lítara",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вялі́кая лі́тара"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vjalíkaja búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вялі́кая бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zahalóŭnaja lítara",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "загалоўная лі́тара"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zahalóŭnaja búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "загалоўная бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "glávna búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гла́вна бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "goljáma búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "голя́ма бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "calum:kri:",
      "word": "စာလုံးကြီး"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lletra majúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "majúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "word": "大寫字母"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàxiě zìmǔ",
      "word": "大写字母"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "word": "大寫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàxiě",
      "word": "大写"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "velké písmeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "majuskule"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stort bogstav"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hoofdletter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "majuskel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "word": "majusklo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "word": "ĉeflitero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "suuraakkonen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "iso kirjain"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "versaali"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "versaalikirjain"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "word": "majuskeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "majuscule"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mtavruli",
      "word": "მთავრული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "asomtavruli",
      "word": "ასომთავრული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "didi aso",
      "word": "დიდი ასო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Großbuchstabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Majuskel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kapitalbuchstabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Versal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Versalbuchstabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Versalie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kefalaío grámma",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κεφαλαίο γράμμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kefalaío",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κεφαλαίο"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "baṛā akṣar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "बड़ा अक्षर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "nagybetű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "majuszkula"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "word": "huruf besar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ceannlitir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maiuscolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maiuscola"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おおもじ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ōmoji",
      "word": "大文字"
    },
    {
      "alt": "大文字",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daemunja",
      "word": "대문자"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "golema bukva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "голема буква"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "word": "huruf besar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kione-lettyr"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lettyr mooar"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "word": "pūmatua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "tom üseg",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "том үсэг"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "majuskel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "versal"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "word": "majuskuła"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "duża litera"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wielka litera"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maiúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "letra maiúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "majusculă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "literă mare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "propisnája búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "прописна́я бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaglávnaja búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "загла́вная бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bolʹšája búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "больша́я бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "велико слово"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "veliko slovo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "veľké písmeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "velika začetnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mayúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "letra mayúscula"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mayúscula inicial"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stor bokstav"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "word": "versal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "word": "malaking titik"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "àk-sɔ̌ɔn-dtuua-yài",
      "word": "อักษรตัวใหญ่"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "word": "büyük harf"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "word": "büyük"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "velýka lítera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вели́ка лі́тера"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "velýka búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вели́ка бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaholóvna lítera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "заголо́вна лі́тера"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaholóvna búkva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "заголо́вна бу́ква"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "word": "bosh harf"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "word": "katta harf"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "word": "chữ hoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "word": "mayud"
    }
  ],
  "word": "capital letter"
}

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  "path": [
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "capital letter",
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}

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