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small letter

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noun

  1. a lower-case letter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Vanessa Bryant was the first to write a small letter to her daughter on Saturday.

From Fox News May 1, 2021

Each of the edges was neatly labeled with a small letter, and each of the angles with a large one.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

I even did the ‘d’ in a small letter.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

I thought the small letter at the start might mean that nothing ever really began all new, with a capital, but that it just flowed on from what came before.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

It was an unusually small letter, of course, and might have gone unnoticed in the letterbox.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

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