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sentence case

noun

Etymology

From sentence + case, because it is the capitalization (letter case pattern) used in a typical English sentence.

  1. derived from cāsus — “a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”
  2. derived from cas — “an event”
  3. inherited from cas
  4. compounded as sentence case — “sentence + case”

Definitions

  1. The standard capitalisation of an English sentence, with the first letter uppercase and…

    The standard capitalisation of an English sentence, with the first letter uppercase and subsequent letter lowercase with exceptions such as proper nouns or acronyms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sentence case. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA