uppercase

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I - noun

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
• Syn:
capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, majuscule
• Ant:
lowercase
• Derivationally related forms:
majuscular (for: majuscule), capital (for: capital), capitalize (for: capital), capitalise (for: capital)
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
small capital, small cap

II - adjective

relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
- uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc
• Ant:
lowercase
• Similar to:
capital, great, majuscule
• See Also:
majuscule