Meaning : The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.
Synonyms : lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule
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.Small letter meaning in Bengali (Bangla).