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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lowercase has 1 sense

lowercase(n = noun.communication) lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case;

is a kind of character, grapheme, graphic symbol

Antonym: uppercase

Adjective lowercase has 1 sense

lowercase(a = adj.all) - 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"

Antonym:

uppercase

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lowercase, a.

Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals; as, lowercase letters a and b and c etc.. Contrasted with uppercase. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. [1913 Webster]