Uppercase
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of upper case. alt-of, alternative
- 2 one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis wordnet
Verb
- 1 To convert (text) to upper case. transitive
Adjective
- 1 Written in upper case; capital. not-comparable
"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."
Adjective
- 1 relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case wordnet
Example
More examples"Are the first letters of the names of languages always written in uppercase in English?"
Etymology
From upper + case.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.