1.
[syn: capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case;
- Example: "uppercase letters X and Y and Z etc";
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uppercase
adj 1: 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]
n 1: 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,
uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant:
lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small
letter]