Adjacent Words

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc" [ant: uppercase] n
1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case [syn: small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule] [ant: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: from the compositor's practice of keeping such types in the lower of a pair of type cases Date: 1683 of a letter having as its typical form a f g or b n i rather than A F G or B N I • lowercase noun II. transitive verb (-cased; -casing) Date: 1908 to print or set in lowercase letters