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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
majuscule is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
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 half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for majuscule come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.