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'

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 , upper-case letter , majuscule ]