uppercase

Adjective
  1. Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case (synset 301470615)
    "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"
    also: majuscule - of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
    similar to: capital, great, majuscule - uppercase
Noun
  1. One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (synset 106837277)
    "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"
    is a type of: character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
    subtypes: small cap, small capital - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
    same as: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter

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