Capital Definition & Meaning

capital
adjective
  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"
noun
  1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
  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"
  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
  7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
  8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

Synonyms for capital

cap noun

a tight-fitting headdress a top (as for a bottle) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of

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great adj

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak

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majuscule adj

of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries uppercase

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uppercase adj

relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters

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"Capital" in song lyrics

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  • "My mental state'll test your mental to the nation's capital"
    7L & Esoteric — Boxcutter Rap
  • "While I sit in my castle engineerin' ships to multiply my capital"
    Apani B. Fly Emcee f/ Sara Kana — Spot Me
  • "Information from our nation's capital"
    Asher Roth — Sour Patch Kids

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Frequently asked questions

What does capital mean?
first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" assets available for use in the production of further assets wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value a seat of government one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and
What part of speech is capital?
Capital is an adjective and a noun.
How many definitions does capital have?
Capital has 11 definitions across 2 parts of speech (adjective, noun).

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