upper-case letter

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Noun

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upper-case letter - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter 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"capital letter, majuscule, uppercase, capitalgrapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"small capital, small cap - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters