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SMALL LETTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Synonyms:
lower-case letter; lowercase; minuscule; small letter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("small letter" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)