upper-case letter

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upper-case letter - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  upper-case letter
      n 1: 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" [syn: capital, capital letter,
           uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant:
           lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter
           ]