small capital

1. 1.

   a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters

   Synonymssmall cap

   Broadercapital

Questions about small capital

What does small capital mean?

small capital means "a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters".

What is another word for small capital?

Close synonyms include small cap. 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 small capital a common word?

small capital 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.