lower case

Noun

lower case - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter

Antonyms:

capital letter, majuscule, upper case, upper-case letter, capital - 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"

capital, capital letter, character, grapheme, graphic symbol, lower-case letter, majuscule, minuscule, small letter, upper case, upper-case letter