lowercase

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
  2. adjective relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case

Etymology

From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

Synonyms

small letter, lower-case letter, minuscule

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