lower-case letter

1. 1.

   the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

   Synonymssmall letterlowercaseminuscule

   Broadercharacter

Questions about lower-case letter

What does lower-case letter mean?

lower-case letter means "the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case".

What is another word for lower-case letter?

Close synonyms include small letter, lowercase, minuscule. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lower-case letter a common word?

lower-case letter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.