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Adjective: uppercase
  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"
Noun: uppercase
  1. One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
    - capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, majuscule

Derived forms: uppercases

See also: capital, great, majuscule

Type of: character, grapheme, graphic symbol

Antonym: lowercase

Encyclopedia: Uppercase

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