1. Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
   "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"

1. One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
   - capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, majuscule

Derived forms: uppercases

See also: capital, great, majuscule

Type of: character, grapheme, graphic symbol

Antonym: lowercase

Encyclopedia: Uppercase

• high finance
• high frequency
• high gear
• High German
• high ground
• high hat
• High Holiday
• High Holy Day
• high horse
• high jinks
• high jinx
• high jump
• high jumper
• high mallow
• High Mass
• high noon
• high pitch
• high point
• high priest
• high profile
• high quality
• high relief
• High Renaissance
• high roller
• high sea