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upper case

upper case noun: the capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....

Noun

upper case (uncountable)

  1. The capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
    Synonyms:
    majuscule, u/c

upper case meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Vietnamese

upper case in Hindi

capital letters
बड़ा अक्षर baṛā akṣar

upper case in Tamil

பெரிய எழுத்து

upper case in Arabic

capital letters
حَرْف كَبِير ḥarf kabīr, أَحْرُف كَبِيرَة ʔaḥruf kabīra, نَسَق كَبِير nasaq kabīr

upper case in Vietnamese

capital letters
chữ hoa

Synonyms of upper case

Antonyms

Forms of upper case

alternative formuppercase

Origin of upper case

Named for the original arrangement in typesetting, where the drawer or case containing capital letters would traditionally be located above the one containing small letters.

Words formed from upper case

Questions about upper case

What does upper case mean?
Upper case means the capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
What is upper case in Hindi?
Upper case in Hindi is बड़ा अक्षर (baṛā akṣar). See Upper case meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is upper case?
Upper case is a noun.

Words near upper case in the dictionary

  1. Upper Burringbar
  2. Upper Bylong
  3. upper camel case
  4. Upper Canada
  5. Upper Canadian
  6. upper case
  7. upper case letter
  8. upper case letters
  9. Upper Castra
  10. upper chamber
  11. upper chambers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upper case (page history and authors); upper case (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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