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lower-case

lower-case is the alternative spelling of lowercase.

Meaning of lowercase

Adjective

lowercase (not comparable)

  1. In lower case.
    • At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would use lowercase eszett and substitute “SZ” for uppercase instances of the letter, until they could figure out a proper design for it.2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2019

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Forms of lower-case

third-person singular presentlower-cases
present participlelower-casing
past participlelower-cased
pastlower-cased

Questions about lower-case

What is lower-case the alternative spelling of?
Lower-case is the alternative spelling of lowercase.

Words near lower-case in the dictionary

  1. Lower Yoder
  2. lower-alcohol
  3. lower-budget
  4. lower-calorie
  5. lower-carb
  6. lower-case
  7. lower-cased
  8. lower-cases
  9. lower-casing
  10. lower-class
  11. lower-classness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lower-case (page history and authors); lowercase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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