| ADJECTIVE | all | uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case |
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| NOUN | communication | uppercase, capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, majuscule | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis |
| Meaning | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case. | |
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| Example | "uppercase letters | |
| Narrower | capital, great, majuscule | uppercase |
| See also | majuscule | Of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters |
| Opposite | lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | mayúscula | |
| Meaning | One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis. | |
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| Synonyms | capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, majuscule | |
| Narrower | small capital, small cap | A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters |
| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
| Opposite | small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | caja alta, letra mayúscula, mayúscula | |
| Catalan | caixa alta, lletra majúscula, majúscula | |
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