uppercase

See also: upper-case and upper case

English

Etymology

From upper +‎ case.

Adjective

uppercase (not comparable)

2. Written in upper case; capital.
   • 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz‎^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• lowercase

Derived terms

• uppercase letter

Translations

written in upper case

• Afrikaans: hoofletters
• Armenian: մեծատառ (hy) (mecataṙ)
• Catalan: majúscul
• Finnish: versaali (fi)
• French: majuscule (fr)
• Georgian: ზედა რეგისტრის (zeda regisṭris)
• German: großgeschrieben (de), groß (de)
• Hungarian: nagybetűs (hu), verzál (hu) (typography)
• Russian: загла́вный (ru) (zaglávnyj), прописно́й (ru) (propisnój), большо́й (ru) (bolʹšój)
• Spanish: mayúscula (es)
• Swedish: versal (sv)
• Tagalog: mayuskula, kaha-alta

Noun

uppercase

1. Alternative form of upper case.

Verb

uppercase (third-person singular simple present uppercases, present participle uppercasing, simple past and past participle uppercased)

1. (transitive) To convert (text) to upper case.

Anagrams

• præpuces