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Synonyms

small letter

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noun

  1. a lower-case letter

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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

I even did the ‘d’ in a small letter.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

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