Capital - Definition

adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
2: of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid
defeat"
3: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great,
majuscule]
n 1: assets available for use in the production of further
assets [syn: capital, working capital]
2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or
business and human resources of economic value
3: a seat of government
4: 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, uppercase,
upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: lower-case letter,
lowercase, minuscule, small letter]
5: a center that is associated more than any other with some
activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug
capital of Columbia"
6: the federal government of the United States [syn: Capital,
Washington]
7: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic
theories [syn: Das Kapital, Capital]
8: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
[syn: capital, chapiter, cap]