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adjective \ˌə-pər-ˈkās\Definition of UPPERCASE
: capital 1
See Origin of UPPERCASE
from the compositor's practice of keeping capital letters in the upper of a pair of type cases
First Known Use: 1738
Rhymes with UPPERCASE
about-face, aerospace, anyplace, boniface, bouillabaisse, carapace, catalase, cellulase, commonplace, contrabass, cyberspace, database, diabase, diastase, double-space, elastase, everyplace, hydrolase, hydrospace, hyperspace, interface, interlace, interspace, invertase, kilobase, lemures, lowercase, marketplace, oxidase, pillowcase, reductase, Samothrace, single-space, steeplechase, thoroughbass, thoroughbrace, triple-space
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nounDefinition of UPPERCASE
: capital letters
First Known Use of UPPERCASE
circa 1916
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transitive verbuppercaseduppercas·ing
Definition of UPPERCASE
: to print or set in capital letters
First Known Use of UPPERCASE
1949
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