Definition word capital letter

capital letter

заглавная буква
(1). С заглавной буквы в английском языке пишутся:
а) названия дней недели, названия месяцев, названия праздников и мест:

Monday — понедельник;

March — март,

New Year, Christmas — Новый год, Рождество;

Mexico — Мехико;

б) названия национальностей (имена существительные и прилагательные):

an American — американец;

the English — англичане;

a French book — французская книга;

Japanese towns — японские города;

в) названия организаций, заглавия книг, названия пьес, фильмов:

Bank of England;

War and Peace.

(2). Если заглавие книги, пьесы, фильма или название организации начинаются с артикля, то с заглавной буквы пишутся и артикль, и само заглавие:

The Ant and The Grasshopper (название басни «Стрекоза и муравей»),

A Doll’s House — Кукольный дом (название пьесы Г. Ибсена).

English-Russian word troubles.
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• Capital letter — Capital Cap i*tal, a. [F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See {Chief}, and cf. {Capital}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• capital letter — n. the form of an alphabetical letter used to begin a sentence or proper name [A, B, C, etc. are capital letters] …   English World dictionary

• capital letter — late 14c.; see CAPITAL (Cf. capital). So called because it is at the head of a sentence or word …   Etymology dictionary

• capital letter — see CAPITAL1 2 …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• capital letter — noun one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper… …   Useful english dictionary

• capital letter — Capital, large letter …   New dictionary of synonyms

• capital letter — capital letters N COUNT Capital letters are the same as capitals …   English dictionary

• Capital letter — NOTOC Capital letters or majuscules [IPA pronunciation: /məˈdʒʌskyuls, ˈmædʒəˌskyuls/] , in the Roman alphabet A , B , C , D , etc., may also be called capitals, or caps. Upper case, upper case, or uppercase is also often used in this context as… …   Wikipedia

• capital letter — noun Letters A, B, C, … (as opposed to a, b, c, …) Syn: big letter, capital, upper case letter, uppercase letter Ant: lower case letter, lowercase letter, small letter …   Wiktionary

• capital letter — a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r: used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc. Also …   Universalium

• capital letter —    In typography, uppercase letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, etc.) In c. 114 CE, an inscription was chiseled into the base of a column in Trajan s Forum, Rome. That inscription had most of the capital letters known today. Until the sixth century …   Glossary of Art Terms

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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

Antonyms[edit]

• lower case letter, lower-case letter, lowercase letter
• minuscule
• small letter

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See also[edit]

• capital letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Capital letter
• in capital letters
• upper case
• uppercase
• lower case
• lowercase

Definitions

Definition as Noun

• one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

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