1. (noun)capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule one of the large alphabetic characters used as the firstletter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
2. (adj)uppercase relating to capitalletters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's typecase "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"
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