uppercase

Definitions

adj

1

Written in upper case; capital.

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.

noun

1

Alternative form of upper case.

verb

1

To convert (text) to upper case.

Collocations

5

ADJ.

english

VERB + UPPERCASE

written

UPPERCASE + NOUN

letters

PREP.

between, in, in

ADV.

always, entirely

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Synonyms

noun — one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first let

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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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 offi

Wiktionary

02

Are the first letters of the names of languages always written in uppercase in English?

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03

Latin was written without spaces between the letters, and entirely in uppercase.

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The Cherokee syllabary, just like the Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin alphabets, has a distinction between lowercase and uppercase letters.

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