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upper case

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See also:uppercaseandupper-case

English

Alternative forms

uppercase

Etymology

Named for the original arrangement intypesetting, where the drawer or case containing capital letters would traditionally be located above the one containing small letters.^[1]

Noun

upper case (uncountable)

Thecapital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
Synonyms:majuscule,u/c(initialism)
Antonyms:lower case,minuscule
Coordinate term:mixed case

Related terms

Translations

capital letters—see alsocapital letter

Catalan:majúscules (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin:大寫 /大写 (zh)(dàxiě),大寫字母 /大写字母 (zh)(dàxiě zìmǔ)
Danish:store bogstaver n pl
Esperanto:majusklaro(collective),majuskloj
Finnish:versaali (fi),suuraakkoset pl,isot kirjaimet pl
French:majuscules (fr) f pl,haut-de-casse (fr) m pl
German:Großbuchstaben (de) m pl,Großschreibung (de) f,Majuskeln (de) f pl,Versalien (de) pl,Versalbuchstaben m pl,Kapitalbuchstaben m pl
Greek:κεφαλαία (el) n pl(kefalaía)
Icelandic:stórir stafir m pl
Irish:cás uachtair m
Italian:maiuscoli m pl,lettere maiuscole f pl,caratteri maiuscoli m pl
Japanese:大文字 (ja)(おおもじ, ōmoji)
Korean:대문자 (ko)(daemunja)
Latvian:lielie burti m pl
Maori:pūmatua
Polish:wersaliki m pl,majuskuły f pl,wielkie litery f pl
Portuguese:maiúsculas f pl,caixas-altas f pl
Romanian:litere mari (ro) f pl,majuscule f pl
Russian:прописны́е бу́квы f pl(propisnýje búkvy),загла́вные бу́квы f pl(zaglávnyje búkvy),ве́рхний реги́стр m(vérxnij regístr)(computing)
Spanish:mayúsculas (es) f pl
Swedish:versaler (sv) c pl,stora bokstäver c pl

References

^Glossary of Typesetting Terms, by Richard Eckersley, Charles Ellerston, Richard Hendel, Page 18

Further reading

Letter case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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