Lower-case letter (original) (raw)

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I. (noun)

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Meaning:

The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type caseplay

Synonyms:

lower-case letter; lowercase; minuscule; small letter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lower-case letter" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

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