uppercase
uppercase adjective: written in upper case; capital. Also the alternative form of upper case.
Adjective
uppercase (not comparable)
- Written in upper case; capital.
- In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.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
Verb
uppercase (third-person singular simple present uppercases, present participle uppercasing, simple past and past participle uppercased)
- To convert (text) to upper case.
Also used as
uppercase is also the alternative form of upper case.
uppercase meaning in Tagalog and Indonesian
uppercase in Tagalog
- written in upper case
- mayuskula, kaha-alta
uppercase in Indonesian
- written in upper case
- kapital
Antonyms of uppercase
Forms of uppercase
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | upper-case |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | uppercases |
| present participle | uppercasing |
| past participle | uppercased |
| past | uppercased |
Origin of uppercase
From upper + case.
Words formed from uppercase
Phrases with uppercase
Questions about uppercase
- What does uppercase mean?
- Uppercase means written in upper case; capital.
- What is uppercase in Tagalog?
- Uppercase in Tagalog is mayuskula, kaha-alta. See Uppercase meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is uppercase?
- Uppercase can be an adjective or a verb.
Words near uppercase in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: uppercase (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “uppercase.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/uppercase. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.