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upper_case

upper case

See also: uppercase and upper-case

English

Noun

upper case ‎(uncountable)

Collective term for the capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....

Synonyms

majuscule
(initialism) u/c

Antonyms

lower case, mixed case, minuscule

Translations

capital letters, collectively

Chinese:
Mandarin: 大寫 (zh), 大写 (zh) ‎(dàxiě), 大寫字母 (zh), 大写字母 (zh) ‎(dàxiě zìmǔ)
Esperanto: majusklo
Finnish: versaali (fi), suuraakkonen (fi), iso kirjain
French: majuscule (fr) f, haut-de-casse (fr) m
German: Großbuchstaben (de) m pl, Großschreibung (de) f
Greek: κεφαλαίο (el) n ‎(kefalaío)
Icelandic: stór stafur
Italian: maiuscolo (it) m, lettera maiuscola f, carattere maiuscolo m
Japanese: 大文字 (ja) ‎(おおもじ, ōmoji)

Korean: 대문자 (ko) ‎(daemunja)
Maori: pūmatua
Polish: wersaliki m pl, majuskuła (pl) f, wielkie litery f pl
Portuguese: maiúscula (pt) f, caixa-alta f
Romanian: literă mare (ro) f, majusculă (ro) f
Russian: прописны́е бу́квы f pl ‎(propisnýje búkvy), загла́вные бу́квы f pl ‎(zaglávnyje búkvy), ве́рхний реги́стр m ‎(vérxnij regístr) (computing)
Spanish: mayúscula (es)
Swedish: versaler (sv), stora bokstäver

Related terms

Letter case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

↑ Glossary of Typesetting Terms, by Richard Eckersley, Charles Ellerston, Richard Hendel, Page 18